Doing What You Love Doesn’t Have to Make You Money

We need to stop putting money at the center of our passion and be okay with doing what we love simply because we love to do it

Lindsey (Lazarte) Carson

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So much of the advice that’s given these days — not only on Medium, but on entrepreneurial websites, lifestyle blogs, and frankly all over the internet — tells you to “do what you love” and if you work at it hard enough, then money will follow.

The people writing these articles and giving out this advice always make themselves out to be the prime examples of how they made it work. They tell people, “if I can do it, then you can do it too!” and in their articles, they go into a detailed step-by-step guide of how to turn your passion into a steady flow of income.

Then, on the other end of these articles, there are those people out there who earnestly live by these guides and do everything in their power to turn their passion into a living. And some of them actually succeed, too…but, not everyone does.

Not everyone works in a field where they’re making a ton of money for doing the thing the what they love to do. Not everyone does what they love and makes any money from it at all. In fact, I’d say that the majority of us are actually doing work that we really don’t love just so…

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Lindsey (Lazarte) Carson

Writer, Runner, and New Mom. I write about work, relationships, culture, and life in general.