Finding your passion

I’m going a little off topic here, but this is something that has been on my mind a lot lately and I thought it would be worth blogging about. It’s about finding your passion and making a living at it.

As many of you know, my full time job is as a web designer and tech support guy. It’s an interesting job, and I don’t hate getting out of bed in the morning to go to work. I have been around computers since I was five, and I’m completely comfortable working with them. I am also patient to a fault, and have no problem spending insane amounts of time explaining to people exactly what I’m doing or how to do what they need to do with their computers. So it’s a good match for me as a career choice. But it is not my passion.

I have a few things that I am passionate about. The most important is my marriage. I am passionate about making my marriage a happy one, and making it work for the long term. It’s my main priority on life. Obviously that’s not an option as a career, so let’s move on to the next one.

My second passion is Halloween. I love visiting and creating haunted houses (both man made and naturally occuring…if that makes any sense). I love the technology that goes into all the stuff back stage. I love the creepy environments that can be created with just some fog, lighting, props, and a few good actors. I love imagining the next great prop, and spending time figuring out how to accomplish the effect that I desire. Most importantly, I love the guests’ reactions - the screams, gasps, and laughs that a good haunt elicits are a wonderful reward for the hard work that goes into the production. If I had the means, that would be my full time job.

Another passion of mine is disseminating important information. I have a passionate distaste for the way that the mainstream media chooses to hide and skew information that people need to understand their world. I feel that if I can get even a fraction of that information out to a fraction of the population, I will have accomplished something, and made the world at least a slightly better place. Currently I accomplish this with this blog, but would love to have the resources to truly disseminate information on a larger scale.

My last passion, and probably the key to solving this riddle, is real estate. I love the thrill of finding a deal. I like to think I’m pretty good at dealing with people. And I love the opportunity for lifelong passive income that real estate investing can provide. It’s just a matter of breaking into the field and making it work for me on my terms.

It sounds to me like I have this puzzle figured out, but need to put the wheels in motion. I need to get off the couch and just do it. But think about it yourself. What’s your passion, and how can you make it your life?