Comments on: Are You Doing Your Life’s Work, or Are You An Employee of The Market?

By: Celinamac

Celinamac — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:23:57 +0000

I think balance is the answer. I work for the market for financial security but I need to maintain some space and time to work or create for myself. When most of my energy is filled-up with working for others and satisfying the requirements of other people, even if its doing something I like……..I don’t feel satisfied.

But when I take time to work on things I personally want …it gives me a sense of peace with myself….i have less anxiety and negative thoughts ….But working for the market also lessens the pressure on me to make my own passion commercial…or make it commercial fast.

So don’t hate any work that brings you money but be careful not to devote all your time and energy on it. Money won’t give you what you really want….

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:32:06 +0000

“this is going to be the last job you work for someone else – it’s time to work for yourself!” Change the “you” to “my” and “yourself” to “myself” and you have my motto for the year. I have side projects that I am working on that I plan to make full-time projects. My job is an absolute function of the market and that has been one of the major drivers of my desire to strive on my own.

By: tomasz

tomasz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:35:22 +0000

Well with the example you gave. I got a professor in school who was teaching for the sole purpose of giving back. She was an executive for years and now she is taking up teaching University students about business and negotiations.

But in general, I think it all really depends on what you like doing. One person may enjoy sitting in front of a computer all day and crunching numbers while another cannot stand sitting still.

any thoughts or am I just rambling on?
But to a large degree I think most jobs are boring and not meant to use peoples full potential. Maybe it is all part of the structure in terms of you have to do the slave work first to prove yourself before you can advance to something else.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:44:59 +0000

I like thinking of my investing and other projects as my side hustles, too…. I think you said it well, it’s going to work best when it can fulfill both your interests as well as your audience’s. Another way of looking at it is that it’s near impossible (or very unwise) anymore to have all one’s income eggs in one basket.

By: Paul @ FiscalGeek

Paul @ FiscalGeek — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:54:23 +0000

I have to say my job is entirely for the market. I’m not sure how you would pick Network Engineering out as something for sheer joy :-). That being said I do like it but man it has it’s days and stress. I prefer to thinking of it as working for “The Man.” I think my side hustle is for me and I truly do write about things that I would want to read or learn about. It’s a good excuse for me to dive into an area that I would like to research and now I can say it’s for the readers.

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Personal Finance Buzz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:57:09 +0000

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