Comments on: Do you love what you do? http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/13/do-you-love-what-you-do/ Oshoma Momoh's personal blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:19:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Varunn http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/13/do-you-love-what-you-do/#comment-123 Varunn Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:15:46 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/13/how-to-do-what-you-love/#comment-123 too true. we require to do what we like and enjoy it. the 2 are inseperable. I have the same T , reminds me to always foloow through. %-) too true. we require to do what we like and enjoy it. the 2 are inseperable.
I have the same T , reminds me to always foloow through. %-)

]]> By: Yvonne http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/13/do-you-love-what-you-do/#comment-122 Yvonne Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:11:10 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2006/02/13/how-to-do-what-you-love/#comment-122 I have a shirt with a tag on it that says: "Do what you like. Like what you do." So simple...and so true. When I didn't know what to major in at Wellesley a dean told me to just look at classes and pick the most interesting ones and I'd find my way...so I did. I ended up majoring in religion though I'm not a religious person. I find the whole concept of religion very interesting. I could write a dissertation on the subject...oh wait, I think I have already. :-) There's something that drove me to the whole corporate thing after school though...it was fear and that ridiculously large number hanging over my head which was my education debt. So rather than taking the radical path and doing something I loved but with little to no job security I ended up going the safe way. But it all works out in the end. I did love my job at Microsoft and got to do some pretty neat stuff on some pretty nifty software, but at the end of the day it wasn't enough. When I got stressed out I would bake...not just a little, but massive amounts of things. And one day I thought it would be fantastic if someone would just pay me to do that! So now I'm in pastry school and have a mentor who is fantabulous and though I wake up at 5 a.m. I'm excited to be doing something I love! Other than the whole $$$ thing what was preventing me from starting to do this was the fear that I was letting people down, but I wasn't. I'm happier, my family is happier, hubby is happier (especially when I bring home pain au chocolat), and I think my friends are happier cause they don't hear me kvetching about wanting to do something else. :-) to quote the other thing on that shirt... Life is good. -Yvonne I have a shirt with a tag on it that says: “Do what you like. Like what you do.”
So simple…and so true. When I didn’t know what to major in at Wellesley a dean told me to just look at classes and pick the most interesting ones and I’d find my way…so I did. I ended up majoring in religion though I’m not a religious person. I find the whole concept of religion very interesting. I could write a dissertation on the subject…oh wait, I think I have already. :-)
There’s something that drove me to the whole corporate thing after school though…it was fear and that ridiculously large number hanging over my head which was my education debt. So rather than taking the radical path and doing something I loved but with little to no job security I ended up going the safe way. But it all works out in the end. I did love my job at Microsoft and got to do some pretty neat stuff on some pretty nifty software, but at the end of the day it wasn’t enough. When I got stressed out I would bake…not just a little, but massive amounts of things. And one day I thought it would be fantastic if someone would just pay me to do that!

So now I’m in pastry school and have a mentor who is fantabulous and though I wake up at 5 a.m. I’m excited to be doing something I love! Other than the whole $$$ thing what was preventing me from starting to do this was the fear that I was letting people down, but I wasn’t. I’m happier, my family is happier, hubby is happier (especially when I bring home pain au chocolat), and I think my friends are happier cause they don’t hear me kvetching about wanting to do something else. :-)
to quote the other thing on that shirt… Life is good.

-Yvonne

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