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Not sure what you should do then. I only pretend to have answers that others want to hear. I can not solve the problem of job passions. I am so sorry. LOL
So then maybe you need to accept that not everybody has a passion that leads to money, and some of us have to settle for jobs that we nearly tolerate, and consider real life to be the time away from work.
Side business (if you have the time) or maybe go into freelance or contract work.
That completely defeats the premise of the post that I was responding to. The post that I was responding to says to avoid working more than 40 hours per week so that you have time for real life outside of the job. Your suggestion gives even less free time. I'm not saying your idea can't work for anybody, but it is entirely against the premise I was responding to.
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First off, you can't play the short game. This is post three videos and then give up because you have a combined hundred views. I know of many YouTube content creators and been a blogger off and on for some time, some posts take off, some don't. Some give you single views, some turn into let me check out other stuff from them while others turn into instant subscriptions. YouTube is the most likely way to make actual money. Blogs require you to basically set up a store or patrion page. It is really good for marketing products and keeping your 20% of customers who give give you 80% of your business through repeats. YouTube you can make money off of views as well as these other revenue streams
But again, many of us do not have a passion that leads to money.
That completely defeats the premise of the post that I was responding to. The post that I was responding to says to avoid working more than 40 hours per week so that you have time for real life outside of the job. Your suggestion gives even less free time. I'm not saying your idea can't work for anybody, but it is entirely against the premise I was responding to.
Well yes but it don't always happen overnight like that. Many people have to have a "real" job until their dream job they want is feasible as an option to live comfortably. Some just try it and wonder why they are broke in a few years after their business plan fails...
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But again, many of us do not have a passion that leads to money.
Or so you think. If you dig deep enough you could if you take the right avenues, are persistent enough and more importantly good enough.
I follow people that write and talk about pro-wrestling for their living. One owns and writes for the website, the other is the lead writer for it. Both started as fans talking on Usenet and AOL groups 22+ years ago. Eventually the right person found the work of the eventual owner and the eventual lead writer. They worked for a relatively big promotion on the website back-end and another wrestling related website prior to venturing off on their own.
I also follow another YouTube personality who started a blog while working special effects for a CGI company. His blog gained enough traction, he started a podcast that got the attention of a multi-national company. The multi-national entertainment company hired him for YouTube videos. He eventually was able to move the videos to a media company after a shake-up. He then left to start his own new project just this year.
Both of these stories took YEARS before they became happy endings. These aren't overnight sensations.
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My comment wasn't directed at you.
It may not have been but I was trying to give prospective on the whole thing. The views of us are across the board.
I once read a glowint article, I believe in Oprah's magazine. about women leaving their corporate 9-5's and "following their passion". Without fail, each woman had either saved up enough through that good old 9-5 job to subsidize her new "passion" or had a well-to-do hubby working to pull the weight while she made a go at her new "passion".
I think the ability to follow your "passion" is a little bit sexist. How many women would want to continue to work the 9-5 grindstone to pay necessities to support hubby after hubs decides to quit his job to follow his "passion". You know, maybe he wants to open a vintage fishing and hunting gear boutique, or start catering football tailgating parties, something creative and fun....
My job used to be my passion until I got into corporate America.
There I was penalized for being a good worker. And the mediocre
workers were being celebrated. If I wanted to experience that, I
would have moved to a communist country.
Thank god, that Trump might be our next President.
This will bring America back to its roots.
I remember growing up hearing from everyone around me (teachers, counselors, parents, etc.) that your job should be your PASSION and that you should look forward to it. I've found the exact opposite to be true. Jobs are a pain in the ass - backstabbing coworkers, meaningless work, mind-numbing repetition, micromanaging bosses, having to get up at the crack of dawn and fight traffic every day. What's so great about that?!
I'm financially preparing for an early retirement, and my job will (hopefully) provide the means to get there. That is why I continue to show up every day, to pay the bills and plan for a time when I will no longer have to show up to work. There is no passion. It's a means to an end.
Amen. I have been a manager for decades and always have a few whiners who complain they don't want xxx assignment because it isn't what they like to do. I once responded, "The definition of 'job' is 'doing something you don't want to do all day, when you don't want to do it, with people you don't want to be with, in a place you don't want to be in'", or something like that.
It's great to have a good work ethic and truly try to do an awesome job. It's great if that has meaning for you beyond just the satisfaction of a job well done, plus compensation. However, it isn't mandatory for basic happiness.
I do truly care about leaving my profession a little better for me having been in it. However, I acknowledged a long time ago that it might not be, and I need to build a life that is satisfying outside of work, because you only get one.
What about those of us who are in professional fields? What options do we have at this point?
How do you make money with a blog or with Youtube? Aren't they free to view?
You consider being realistic to be "making excuses"?
Work on a side business in your spare time until you can quit your day job. If you have a professional job that's tied to a salary that has no potential to make 6 figures AND/OR ties you to a salary that requires you to work OVER 40 hours a week without overtime pay, AND this is not what I defined earlier as a career (go back and look it up), that is what you need to do.
If you don't know how to make money with a blog or Youtube videos in 2016, I seriously have to wonder how you managed to be in a professional field.
You're not being realistic. It's 2016 and you don't know how to use Youtube & blogging for money. A guy made money selling a horrible song on iTunes called "Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife" YEARS AGO that started from his viral Youtube video and you think a passion can't be exploited for dollars using this medium?
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Not sure what you should do then. I only pretend to have answers that others want to hear. I can not solve the problem of job passions. I am so sorry. LOL 
