Honey. ..So what if you don’t like it now? You’ll learn to love your job!

I don’t know how or when this happened but more and more people I know feel that content writing is somehow the prefect job for “rebellion within a controlled environment”. As paradoxical as that sounds, the view seems to be that, one gets to do the writing work, without the stress involved in journalism. If not anything else, to me this seems like an unintentional and mild insult to those passionate content writers who actually love their jobs. I wonder if many of us would be okay to munch on carrots instead of French fries, the common factor here being, crunchiness. More interestingly, this whole “learning to love the job” paradigm feels analogous to the arranged marriage system!

They say “You’ll learn to love your husband( who by the way, happens to be rich)” similarly ,not just content writing but any other job for that matter…”You’ll learn to love your job( which by the way will make you rich)” Maybe. While they’re at it, it would immensely help if they could also prescribe something that would cure the regretatthebackofmyhead condition, knowing I would have rocked at something that they deemed an impractical career choice. Will some aspirin help me perhaps, 20 years down the lane?

I know it is that proverbial question of comfort vs. passion, so let’s get down to it. How many people who are famous and I mean Bill Gates kind of famous, took the option of comfort as opposed to passion? I am not a big follower of history, but I don’t think any of the great men and women who accomplished great things said “I’ll take the money instead!” Yes I do accept we all have those super successful cousins and friends who call all the shots at their workplaces…but their arguments are invariably based on “comfort”. These are the exact same people who want their kids to infallibly follow their dream, irrespective of how “impractical” their career choices are(nascent memories anyone?)

We newbies, hold a tremendous amount of respect for the experienced. That’s why we need them to be there for us and support us when we take our decisions. We need them to offer us some words of advice, but also to let us make our own mistakes. All our parents want is to see us happy and doing well for ourselves, and we are truly blessed to have them worry for us. I ask them however, how to have our integrities intact with regret in our hearts? How does one completely give in to their new job as the business development officer when they know, that their dusty dslr camera beckons at them every day?

Bottom-line is, I may not turn out to be the next hotshot writer of a best-selling novel (which I am, smugly enough, sure to be by 40!) but hey…I tried! And I loved every step of the way, knowing I was fully aware of what I was doing. Trust those like me; to be smart enough to make money out of stuff we love doing. The revolutionary generation has arrived indeed

When it comes to career choices, don’t make them under the influence of somebody and/or money. Because sometimes, it’s more dangerous than being under the influence of alcohol.