The key to success, and this isn’t revolutionary, is to be compensated based on your passion.
Holy shit! it is that easy!
I was reading ZoeyJane the other day say that she made something like $700 for blogging. I think that is pretty cool. I don’t know how long she has been writing, but $700 is a triumph. To get paid to do what you’d do anyways is something that maybe we all wanna do.
I wanna make radio, I wanna play music, I wanna talk about I dunno, stuff, and somehow I managed to get paid to do that (for now at least).
If you are wondering, where are all the jobs? The future of jobs in Canada is creation. Something like 30% of all Americans that earn a pay cheque bet their mortgage on what they create! That to me, is pretty fucked up (in a good way). Taking something that wasn’t there before, and making it… or thinking about a process that we all do everyday, throwing it out the window and doing it completely different. I think about shit like that all the time. And the spark flickers in my head, but then I come to work and do what radio DJs do everyday. Hmmm… not going to break my show out by doing that. BUT that is the safer way to operate… and I got a mortage. hmmm.
I was thinking about the skate boarding movie while lying in bed tonight. Dogtown and Z Boys? I think that is what its called. These kids just hung out all day skate boarding, partying, surfing and repeat. Thats all… their passions right. Some of them grow up and start skate boarding companies, the rest is Hollywood.
I think that is pretty cool. What did you sit around doing all day, everyday when you had all the time to do it? No kids, no bills, school was just a tribal gathering place, you had half a tank of gas in the car…. what did you do?
Maybe if you can jump in a time machine, and go back to that person, that you were, maybe you can answer the root question, what is your passion?
ZoeyJane had people pay her $700 last month to tell stories about her life and challenges.
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Coral and I were watching the Office today. At the end of the episode, just before 30 Rock, Jim was going around the Office to collect $3 for a birthday cake. When he got to Creed, Creed pulled out a $3 bill. I laughed and laughed, my brother Matt used to always say, “That’s queerer than a three dollar bill.”
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That’s all I got, go with yourself.
The Morning After 
Travel around the world as a pro-skier, my home base being Whistler. To get paid for being a ski bum, study ski movies at night while knocking back beers in the clothes given to me by my sponsors and waking up to epic powder mornings?? Training all year for X-Games and becoming the queen or air and style…like a REAL Huckdoll?? OMG. Hell, I’d do that without getting paid for it if I could.
that would be nice. A lot of this stuff you would have had to put in motion at a younger age… but if you broadened your net… could you do law for Whistler? Contract law for sponsorships and professional skiers?
True. Before Colin and I broke up, we had plans in motion to start a video/photography agency specializing solely on portfolios of young athletes in the skate/board/ski community. He’s amazing with video and I’d go to school for photography specializing in motion capture type stuff. We know quite a few athletes, young and old, so we had some material. Eventually, I had hoped to move into freelance photography working the Telus Ski and Snowboard Fest, etc. … because you’re right – I would have had to put in way earlier, but I wasted so many vital years partying. This would have been a wicked way to stay involved with the mountain community, spend lots of time in Whistler, the locals and various other resorts and do something creative. Who knows…might still happen.
it might? life is long 🙂 I saw a great interview with Martin Short once. The dude is what? 50? He already has a degree and he was thinking of going back to university to get his doctor. Take four years. so he figured he’d be like 55 or so when he was done. Then he’d be a GP and move to cottage country Ontario and be a doctor till he was 75. And when he’d die, the people of him community would say, there goes Dr. Short… what a good doctor he was… not, there goes Martin Short, he was in the Three Amigos.
But what I am also saying… is take what you have to do now.. you know.. work for money to feed your girls… and see if there is away to get a little of that Whistler in there too 🙂