I Turned My Passion into My Job, and It Didn’t Go as Expected

It’s a story we are told over and over again: we should find our passion, work hard to make it our job, and then “we won’t have to work a day in our lives”. But what if this story is completely wrong?

My passion is to travel. I discovered it in my late teens, back in the mid 2000’s, in a time when, for the most part, travelling wasn’t a job — at least not in…