Tell me about yourself.

[resonant]

I'm suddenly struck with the desire to know how other people do the things that matter most to them, how they find and follow their passions.

How do you decide where your heart is? How do you carve out time and energy to pursue it?

Are you on a new road or one you've been following for a long time? What have you learned that could help others? What false starts have you made, what poor judgments? What have you compromised, and what do those compromises look like to you now?

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

In Samuel Delany's Stars In My Pockets Like Grains of Sand, everyone has a job₁ and a job₂ and what they call home₃work.

I read the book decades ago, but I was always very struck by that -- it seems much more humane than expecting people to work at the same job 40 hours a week for years and years. I'd love to do one thing 20 hours a week, and another thing 10 hours, and a couple of volunteer tasks 5 hours apiece.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do one thing 20 hours a week, and another thing 10 hours, and a couple of volunteer tasks 5 hours apiece.

I was going to reply to your post with this suggestion, because it's almost exactly what I do, but I see you've already come up with it!

Right now I work two days a week in my first field, corporate accounting. Another two or three days a week I work for myself in horse hoof care. I'm also the volunteer treasurer at a gay & lesbian community services organisation, and then there are the alpacas! My current lifestyle suits me so much better than my old one that I can't see myself working at a full-time job ever again.

Having two or more part-time income sources makes it easier to keep making changes, too, since you don't have to entirely give up your existing situation to add something new.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Cool! My life is moving in that direction, too -- though it helps to be married to someone with a predictable paycheck and health insurance.