Turning your passion into your profession

I thought this was an interesting article.



The maker of the iPhone game, Steve Demeter, made $250,000 from his iPhone puzzle game called Trism, that he quit his day job to set up a development studio.

Another person I read about, Anthony Borelli, became successful in affiliate marketing after much attempts, and now enjoys a lot of time with his family, and now a millionaire.

If you followed my blog long enough, Yaro Starak shouldn't be a strange name to you. He's another successful entrepreneur. Even before his professional blogging days, he already had considerable successes on the internet.

How about The Terminator-turned-Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger? Did you know that even before he was Conan The Barbarian (his breakthrough movie), he was already a millionaire business man?

All these men transformed their passion for something into a lucrative income earning career. It can be from a passion in making computer games, to simply a passion in building businesses (particularly in restauranting, isn't it, Governor Schwarzeneggar?). I began mine in an accidental passion in financial planning years ago, and I sure have more than one passion, but I'll have to take it one at a time. At least I've got started too. What about you?

In the older days, work is HARD work. You don't sweat, you don't bleed, you don't get paid. Long gone are those days. Even if you sweat and bleed yourself dry today, you still get laid off. Employers cannot hold up their own businesses. The risk is sometimes only an hierarchy difference. If you have got what it takes to run a business, why not do it yourself?

If you read beyond the gloom and doom in the newspapers, you will find some articles here and there about some unique group of people who are pursuing their dreams particularly right at this moment! At this global slump? Yes! And I agree with them 100% that there is no better time than this!

What could be your passion that can be transformed into a career? It sure takes a lot of planning, a lot of attempts, and a lot of failure. It may cost you a lot of money too. But if you desire to break through but choose to not move, the failure will be permanent and guaranteed.

Or maybe for some, it's simply just injecting more passion into the work you are already in.

I'll leave you today with a quote from the late Abraham Lincoln, who knows better than most people what it is like to fail over and over and over and over again. He said, "My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."