Is passion boring?

After my last article on Passion, many of you (some angrily, I must confess) reached out to me, saying it is demotivating to say, “Don’t follow your passion.” My simple question to them is, are you ready to make money from your passion, or is it something that you think of as an escape from your daily routine? Because Passion is as boring as your ‘Day Job.’ Don’t believe me. Just read on ……..

What choices do we have? 

How important is it for you to make money? I mean, how long can you go without having a paycheck every month?

Let's face it unless we have a parent or a loved one to bankroll our passion, the passion we hold has to pay for everything that we need to live a decent life. This is where you have to self-analyze your passion. 

Following your passion is entirely different from making money from your passion.

Building A Career Asks More Than Just Passion

A stable career asks you to have a practical lookout at things and not just passion. 

Even if you are deeply passionate about dancing and want to build your own dance studio. Will passion alone work? No, it’s about managing the bank, the customer, the team members, the authorities, and making good financially. After all,, if you can still manage to run a dance studio with that similar frequency of passion, then it is meant for you, and you are meant for it. TAKE A LEAP.

I have heard several of my colleagues say all they want to do is open a quirky little restaurant, why because everyone loves good food. I once did the math. It's not as easy to run a restaurant as one thinks. 

Ways To Look At Passion

If you make it your Job 

As I said earlier in the article, turn your passion into your profession if you can draw a definite career path from that. People have lived their passion in their profession; in fact, they are the happiest. But, every job is repetitive. So, even after 6 years, some people (not all) get bored of what they once called their passion. It is not mandatory, but it is a possibility. 

In short, it is not an escape from your daily hustle, and it is plunging into another. 

If You Live Your Passion As A Side-Gig 

Even if you have chosen a different career path, you can still take out time for your passion (as a part-time gig). If you can earn from it, it will be your part-time earnings. If you don't, you still have a job.  

If You Buy Time For Your Passion

This, for me, is the most important and often forgotten path to passion. While you work hard and get that big fat paycheck, remember to create a passion fund so that you save enough to cushion your fall when you finally decide to ditch everything and take the plunge to follow your passion. 

In The End 

It’s not all doom and gloom on the passion front. If you have a passion to follow, then never lose sight of it. This means, as you work and earn, don’t use the money to buy things. Instead, use that money to buy time. It’s time that will allow you the liberty to follow your passion. And if you are in your early career stage, then re-evaluate if you are really passionate about your passion to earn your livelihood from it?