{"id":29561,"date":"2013-10-03T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=29561"},"modified":"2013-10-03T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:51:11","slug":"creative-pros-love-what-you-do-and-do-what-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/creative-pros-love-what-you-do-and-do-what-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Pros: Love What You Do And Do What You Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you keep your creative passion alive when getting paid to do it can seem like a chore?<\/h2>\n

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Working in a creative career, the danger can be that your passionate hobby turns into a career that loses its vitality<\/strong> and causes you to question whether you even want to do what you used to love. I found this post on Reddit\/Editors<\/a> a little while ago, from an editor called TiredoftheTimeline<\/a>, who wrote a few short paragraphs but powerfully summed up the problem:<\/p>\n

I take no joy in something I used to pour hundreds of hours of my own time into doing and that is the saddest thing of all. I managed to turn what was a highly enjoyable hobby into a career and now it’s the thing I detest…<\/em><\/p>\n

My biggest fear is that I’ll look back in twenty years and have nothing of real substance to show for it, nothing that contributes to the advancement of us as a species…I’ve always been the rock, providing the foundation for the structure that is my family… yet I feel like I’m being crushed and I don’t know how to stop it. I can’t fail them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you find yourself in a similar situation or you’re about to embark on a career change that could\u00a0take your beloved passion\/hobby and turn it into your livelihood<\/strong>, here are a few thoughts I hope will be of help.<\/p>\n

A 50lb Rock on a 5lb Shelf<\/h3>\n