I just finished reading the article by Jonathan Milligan, "If You're Not Passionate About Your Message, Don't Start a Blog."
I really liked the points he made, especially the point of pursuing your "no-end path." I don't want to wake up one day at 40 and realize I've wasted half of my life with a career I don't really enjoy or care about. I want to do something that even thirty years from now, I will still wake up excited to go to work and do my job.
If what you're doing doesn't make you happy, then what's the point? This mindset is what led me to pursue photography as a career and not just a hobby. I know it's hard to make it as a freelancer, I know it's hard to make money from photography, I know. And I like having money as much as the next person, believe me. But I'm a firm believer that if you do what you love, with enough effort, the money will come.
"Effort" being the key word here. I've had to try really hard the past few months to try to get my photography business up and running. This included being annoying as heck on social media and inviting every Facebook friend I had to like my photography page, spamming people's feeds with photos and information on shoots, etc. Hopefully, this hard work will pay off and allow you to do this dream job.
So live passionately, whether it's a blog, a college major, a career, whatever. Just do what makes you happy.
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