Over the last few years, I have worked on quite a few entrepreneurial projects. They have all stopped for one reason or another. In all honesty, I did not commit 100% of my time to them. Here again, I am in NYC work on various projects and not committing to one project.
I just read the posts that I wrote myself 3 years ago about choices in career. I am somewhat not in finance any more, back to work on various projects. Apparently, I have not found my calling yet. I re-read Paul Grahm’s article on love again and this paragraph stood out for me.
“The test of whether people love what they do is whether they’d do it even if they weren’t paid for it—even if they had to work at another job to make a living. How many corporate lawyers would do their current work if they had to do it for free, in their spare time, and take day jobs as waiters to support themselves?”
One of my business now is importing lumber and supplying other goods via government contract. I am pretty sure I can safely say that I would not be doing it if I was not getting paid.
Gosh, if money was taken out of the equation of deciding what work I love to do, I would be at a complete loss.
The search continues.