How I Realized the Best Career in the World Was Not for Me
And how I’m happy now, earning so much less while working for myself.
When I was 14 years old, I made one of the most important decisions of my life: I decided to study Software.
At that time, I was interested in drawing, reading, or being creative. However, my family was not rich, so my priority in life was to change our financial situation.
Luckily for me, my school offered software as an elective, so I proceeded to study that branch. My brother and father loved that decision and said I had done the right thing, so even though I wasn’t interested in this career as such, I was happy with that move for them.
Seeing my family proud and pleased was a blessing. I didn’t mind that it was a boring career (for me); I was enjoying being a good daughter and sister.
I’ve always been against monetizing hobbies anyway.
My father always said that jobs were for making money and that the things we liked were for releasing our stress and being happy. This thought was strengthened as I grew up and saw hundreds of people on the internet and around me saying that monetizing their hobbies made them lose the passion they had for them.
