the organic route: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the parts of your job that you like at the expense of those you don't.I think a third route might be lower your costs, make up a job for yourself, and convince people (including yourself) that you can do it. Bootstrap. Each of those three tasks is really difficult though... giving up things that you're used to is one of the least comfortable feelings in the world; making up a job for yourself is difficult because it requires that you know what kind of job you want; convincing people (including yourself) is almost impossible because nobody (including yourself) can ever really be convinced of anything. We are all incredible skeptics of happiness.
the two-job route: to work at things you don't like to get money to work on things you do.
Oh, and the forth route: be really lucky. I think that's my route. To say it was anything else would be hubris. And then I'd be ripe for tragedy. The lucky souls just go along and everything seems to go right... but it's nothing to take pride in really.
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yal b like flirtin wid me, fools b like shit “dat verse is curtains 4 me”
Do you think you would still be doing what you love if doing what you loved made for more struggle? That's probably impossible to answer.
i liked caterina's quote somewhere about how the current state of our corner of software world is aptly named, "revenge of the liberal arts majors".
Ugh, those people were really driving me crazy but I can't quite put my finger on why. Also, I couldn't figure out if they were passive-aggressively arguing or just sort of stupid. "Would you get in my headset out the bag?" "by headset you mean..." "my headphones." "where are they?" "in the bag."