do what you love but have a contingency plan - by Ava

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A question that people ask me a fair amount is: Should I quit my job to write? And I recently read this excellent post, which debates the merits of whether you should do what you love, and realized that it’s something I have a few opinions on.

Pierre Bonnard, Fenêtre ouverte sur la Seine (Vernon), 1911–12 A question that people ask me a fair amount is: Should I quit my job to write? And I recently read this excellent post, which debates the merits of whether you should do what you love, and realized that it’s something I have a few opinions on. Personally, I do not think that if you “do what you love the money will follow,” even though I guess in my case it’s proven to be somewhat true. I think that if you do what you love and you happen to be enormously lucky the money will follow. So it’s a very unreliable thing to bet on,…

do what you love but have a contingency plan - by Ava

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