Choosing hobby as a career

Choosing a hobby as a career?  Any youngster who wants to settle down always has this question in his or her mind. Now let us analyze two situations.

Imagine you love to swim underwater and want to take up diving as a career. You are hired by one of the well-known film directors to cover an underwater shoot or let’s say you are a photographer who has participated in a contest by National Geographic Channel. Your pictures get selected and you are invited to work as an intern with them. Won’t that be an exciting career proposition?

Now, let’s say you have been sitting for different competitive exams since the last seven years and still have not been able to crack any one of them. You have qualified for the interview but every time you got rejected. Only a year is left for you to appear for the exam. On the other hand, your parents keep nagging you every day or the other to pull up your socks and take charge of your future. You are annoyed and have heated discussions over the phone every day.

Comparing the above situations, the first situation might inspire a youngster to take up his or her hobby as a profession and excel in life. In the second situation, family pressure might ultimately force you to quit and take any extreme decision in life or else it can also inspire you to work hard and finally land you up a government job.

Both the situations are quite unique in their own way. You can succeed or you might not succeed. You might love diving as a hobby and you are an expert diver, but it is not necessary that you will really make it big when it will come to develop this hobby as a career. On the other hand, you can also crack the competitive exam and land up the job. No one can pre-determine the outcomes in both the situations.

It really doesn’t matter whether you are choosing your hobby as a career or not. It is necessary to follow the passion of your life.