Neither is DJ’ing. I’m sure you can think of a bunch of others that fall into this category. By definition, “career” means “an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed by one’s life work.” There’s a reason for the existence of the expression “don’t quit your day job.” Ultimately, your career should lead you to a way that lets you take care of someone else too, other than just your immediate needs. There’s certainly a period in life when it’s acceptable to chase these occupations, but if they don’t work out, do the responsible thing and walk away, even if it’s to find a career that can support your hobby.
I was at work walking from my cube to the elevators and I passed 2 guys I know talking about eye doctors who wear glasses instead of contacts having no expertise to share with people who wear contacts. As I passed them, directly on the other side of a cube wall next to them is a Blackberry support girl who was on the phone with a caller. The girl and the 2 guys were no more than 3 feet away from each other, separated only by a 3 inch thick, 5 foot tall cube wall. Right as I was even with the cube wall, the girl and one of the guys said “contacts” at the same time. It was like the intersection of a sine and cosine wave. 2 completely different contexts and conversations intersecting in verbal harmony.
To top it off, as I’m writing that paragraph, my coworker came over and said “Sorry I’m late, I was talking to my contacts over in another department.”
Despite what they say, they’re probably not thinking with your desires 100% in their minds. As a general rule of thumb, you should always know and question people’s intentions. if they have no incentive to help you, they probably aren’t. realtors make money from you. They have a little motivation to make sure you have a good experience for you to throw referrals their way, but all in all, they’re not on the hook for anything. They know you are going to buy a house. If they’re selling a house, they know it will sell eventually if it’s reasonable. The fact is, the more money the save you on the house, the less money they get, so their not going to work as hard as you’d like.
It’s called the Mpemba effect. It’s a weird phenomenon that has been repeated, but not effectively recreated. I had heard about it a long time ago, something like a friend told me to put hot water in the ice tray so that it would freeze faster. It doesn’t seem like that’s entirely valid, but maybe.
