This is a comment that I found on a blog, regarding the book Four Hour Work Week that I copy and pasted. The book is basically about trimming down your work week to only four hours a week, hence the title. Four hours of work a week sounds great, but an issue with the book was brought up by critics, "What if you like your job? What if your job is your passion? Why would you limit yourself to only four hours?" The book is for people with jobs, that aside from monetary gain, have zero reward, and are absolutley soul crushing. Well, here's a response from someone who's a defender of the book and in denial about being in the rat race:
I do project management, but my passion is comedy (stand-up, improv, sketch). But just because my job title doesn't say comedian, doesn't mean I can't work to incorporate my passion into my job through trainings, or how I send email, or what I do to build up my team. While that won't be the case for every passion, you can be creative and find ways that you can combine both "work" and "passion."
Someone needs to get a camera crew and film one of his training sessions.
That guy Tarvin is the new Paula Poundstone. That one short paragraph oozes with passion.
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