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Work: Food for Soul
Loving what you do or doing what you love?
Did you ever have one of those existencial crisis where you ask yourself: what the hell am I (supposed) to do?
Four years ago, unsatisfied with a promising — but unfulfilling — engineering career, I quit my job to seek doing what I love. It was a hard decision, leaving behind a stable abundant income in a socially secure country to go look for rainbows. But somehow the anguish of the unknown became less painful than the daily life I was leading.
What Do You Do?
But what was it that I love doing? And how come this question is such a big issue for human beings?
Well, our profession sort of defines us. The words «what do you do?» are inevitable any time you meet someone. And when you think of a person in your social network the occupation immediately pops into your head.
The single most mentioned characteristic about myself by whomever I came in contact with was that I was an inspiring communicator. I never really saw that as a competence as it just came so naturally to me.
So I started to wonder: why not use this “gift” to earn a living? How can I make a career out of this natural talent? Isn’t this just a social skill? And where does the need to turn something you’re naturally good at into a profitable…
