Quite often that not, it is adviced to earn one's livings in line with his/her interests. Interests varying from academic, cultural to literary are told to be made the tools to earn your daily bread . 'Do what you love', 'Merge your interests and work', 'You'll prosper if and only if you do something you are naturally inclined to' these lines are heard often while one's just about to begin his carrier. Like I read somewhere 'The marketing mix of life'...
Then the big question mark, would commercializing one's interest grant him/her the satisfaction he/she was enjoying when the interests were treated as mere interests. The feeling of someone coaxing you to force yourself to pursue something you would love to but don't want to, at present. Interests would rather turn into liabilities compelled on you, to survive. The pure, innocent love would transform to a commercial piece of act, for liquid assets. Natural and keen indulgence, now mandatory participation with an exhausted, over worked and unwilling mind.
Recognition remains as a 'must' compliment when pursuing such interests because of their not so specialised and not very unique nature. The run for acknowledgement being tougher than the sperm race, stands as a big dilemma.
Hmmm.. where does one head, try to satisfy one's mind and get entangled in the web of commercialising his/her interests or live the mechanical, pseudo life in the quest of materialistic joy and try to squeeze time (idealistic) to pursue what one would rather do, when free (again idealistic).
Then the big question mark, would commercializing one's interest grant him/her the satisfaction he/she was enjoying when the interests were treated as mere interests. The feeling of someone coaxing you to force yourself to pursue something you would love to but don't want to, at present. Interests would rather turn into liabilities compelled on you, to survive. The pure, innocent love would transform to a commercial piece of act, for liquid assets. Natural and keen indulgence, now mandatory participation with an exhausted, over worked and unwilling mind.
Recognition remains as a 'must' compliment when pursuing such interests because of their not so specialised and not very unique nature. The run for acknowledgement being tougher than the sperm race, stands as a big dilemma.
Hmmm.. where does one head, try to satisfy one's mind and get entangled in the web of commercialising his/her interests or live the mechanical, pseudo life in the quest of materialistic joy and try to squeeze time (idealistic) to pursue what one would rather do, when free (again idealistic).
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You have tried to comprise a lot with the subject of 'what one is interested in should not be utilised as a profession' however i think that you have not been able to comprehend all the corners and bends of the possibilities of this aspect of an individual's life. ( I call it an aspect of life because i see these interests as realisations of inherent passions which people hold within the great realms of their Mind; hence they define a person and so it is a facet. ) I think that a person is interested in something because he has passion for it, because whenever he sees something related to his passion, his eyes lit up and ideas start to emerge from the walls of his Cerebellum. And if he can sell his ideas and his imaginations then whats the harm in that. And also if someone else is trying to motivate him to take it up as a career then i believe thats a career move in the right direction because that advisor has complete comprehension of his interest and is urging him to move in the direction in which he will not have to elsewhere to earn a survival but his very own passion.
However the point here is that to what extent are you pushing yourself in commercialising this passion. And if you are stretching yourself to close in on your passion to sucha na extent that it compels you to forcefully produce ideas that are not the part of your general interest....the my friend is the time you should understand that this profession has become a liability rather than "cashing-in-of-your-interest". Cause now in this situation it sthe other way around as "interested-beause-its-cashing-in". I guess you got what i am saying.
Also, you have wrongly grasped the meaning of 'marketing mix of life'. Because it means mixing your passion and profession. Profession is what you do waking and walking. Passion is something you while sleeping as well. Passion is something thats pure indulgence from the heart. The single source of all extraordinary achievements is Passion. Hence why not indulge in your passion so much so that someone else find it beautiful enough to pay you amount of hefty currency for it. Will you refuse it Mr. Joy ???
Ofcource I would refuse Mr. Bansal.. First of there is no limit to which one comercializes his/her interest, when it becomes a profession then it leaves the array of your own discretion unless one is freelancing which again can not be done with fair amount of recognition in the respective field. The only reason I think, in terms of keeping them at different ends is cause one ends up commercialisin it to the extent where as you said "interested-beause-its-cashing-in" aspect comes in..
Champ ! first of all you wont refuse (this is for sure) , secondly thts what i am trying to say that you should know where to draw the line, the line beyond which you know that its gonna take away all the passion ! Thats where your intellect plays a role ! You should know the limits cause only then it could be assumed that you had the brains to commecialise your passion. And also you can decide on not commercialising if you can afford the living otherwise !
Its a matter of circumstantial issues as well rather than just what one thinks about it !
Well Sir, I repeat my words. Practically it becomes impossible to stop the commercialising process even though one wants to or knows he/she has to. There exists a heirarchy, a mangement line-up in the corporate world which would not allow oneself to stop or even slow the process. The whole article revolves around the forcefull, unwanted compulsion of stretching it to the limit to which the interests become a liability..
Hi Aashim,
here are my thoughts on this.
Loving what you do is a good idea. the problem is that it should be in an environment controlled by you.very simply, if you are writing to order, very soon u will hate writing. so if u can be sure that u will go on loving whatever it is that you love doing, then yes, go for it.
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