John Grogan was a hard-working writer.
He rose up through the ranks of journalists, winning lots of awards and recognition. The pay wasn’t bad either–by journalist standards. But it certainly wasn’t enough to fund his real dreams–those aspirations that bubbled under the surface. The ones that his friends and families probably rolled their eyes when he mentioned. The ones that “didn’t pay.”
John wasn’t deterred, though.
John worked hard and wrote a tale about his attention-deficit dog, Marley. The book
As John Grogan says:
“But before there was the phenomenon known as Marley, there was a career move, which took me from South Florida to rural eastern Pennsylvania to become editor of Rodale’s Organic Gardening magazine. What can I say? I had this crazy dream of making my hobby my job and my job my hobby.”
Maybe you won’t write the next Marley. (But maybe you will…) And maybe your dream isn’t editing an organic gardening magazine. But there’s no reason you can’t attain the personal financial freedom necessary to allow you to pursue your dreams.
Do you have any stories of occupational inspiration? Of people who turned their hobby into their job, and their job into their hobby?
We’d like to hear about it.
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