Pastime or Passion?
So today is my last day at the office before I’m officially a student again and it brings up a lot of emotions. Change is scary dude! I’m so excited for this next chapter and to pursue something I’m passionate about, but its definitely hard to leave a good career behind. I wanted to share a very important piece of advice I heard from both my best friend and my VP.
My bestie has always said to me, find your passion and the money will follow. This usually after long discussions on what in the world we are going to do with our lives. We both have a lot of ambitions. But I watch her working hard and making a difference, and I saw her sister also leave a promising career to be a homeopath (so incredible!) and it gave me courage.
My VP sat down with me for a 1x1 (just a fancy name for a catch up) last fall and as we were discussing potential next steps. He told me the first thing I had to do was think long and hard about where I wanted to be; what my goal was. Leaving my field might not have been exactly what he meant, but to his credit when I told him about this change he said "This is exactly what I meant!". How awesome is that?
Both of them were essentially saying, find your passion and then make it happen. To me the other piece of that is, not everything that makes you excited is truly a passion. For instance, I love crafting, but I could never do that for a living. Many things are meant to pastimes and a few things will be your passion.
I just can’t thank all the people in my life who have been so supportive of this. Not least of which is my amazing husband!
And on that note, since I find it hard to be serious for too long, here’s my sense of humor on this whole thing:
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