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If you're good enough to pay the bills doing something you love, why would you do anything else?Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:37 am I love playing guitar. People think I am great. I achieved all my dreams when I was 21 when I was playing it in front of lots of people and they actually liked it.
Life is a bit pointless now.
Now it's all about making my Mrs laugh.
Had any results yet?
Gumboot wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:18 amAll well and good, if that's what you want to do, and not just you being super supportive of something your son wants to do while benching your own future. Is it?troglodiet wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:14 pm I'm an insomniac so am pretty much fucked when it comes to following my dreams...
On a serious note, you can have all the passion you need, and the natural talent, but in the end you still need entrepreneurial skills to make a living from whatever you're into.
I saw it when I was still doing photography as a hobby, and trying to at least make some extra money from it. I was never any good, but I saw people with virtually no photography skills making a living from it, because they still knew how to grow the business side of things. The art or special skill is only about 10% of the complete package.
My son and I want to start breeding pythons and boas, starting with Ball Pythons and Redtail boas. My son definitely had the know-how, but we need to learn the business side of things from other breeders.
Me too
When is your book about the destruction of the Welsh mining industry and the subsequent decades of smearing of the (non) working class coming out? Looking forward to it.Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:37 am I love playing guitar. People think I am great. I achieved all my dreams when I was 21 when I was playing it in front of lots of people and they actually liked it.
Life is a bit pointless now.
Now it's all about making my Mrs laugh.
Why would you want to chase money when the government has been giving you some for pretty much your entire adult life ?Line6 HXFX wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:35 am I mean when I was writing a complex database, I loved rolling them out and training peolle up.l, and impressing people, when I play guitar I love it when people enjoy it, when I am caring for people I enjoy their gratitude and the sense of helping and of purpose and routine. I am not really one for chasing money for a sense of fulfillment, I would be fulfilled in other ways (there is no money around here anyway).
But I love making my Mrs happy above anything.
When I make my Mrs happy, ( in the words of Jack Ncholson, in As Good as it Gets) I feel I truly have a life.
I will die happy knowing how much fun we have had. A relationship based on honesty and affection.
Many people can go through life and not experience it, lots of families and relationships are fucking toxic.
Mine is just f'king great.
That was pretty much my game plan, too. Got her to where she wanted to be, on time, and then let her figure out if it was worth pursuing or not.Yeeb wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:51 am Interesting thread , lots of topics here like parents dreams, attractiveness V success , natural talent v working hard
Personally, I only ever wanted to be a pilot as a kid, turns out colour blindness zapped that idea - I liked economics and lived near to London, gf at the time was from London, so naturally fell into the city as it was relatively well paid for sitting in a comfortable office and talking to people and press the occasional button. I now have a comfortable if not spectacular life, which suits my laziness and natural (lack of) mega talent perfectly.
My own kids seem pretty talented at swimming so they are doing that competitively and elder ones just started international events , getting some PB’s despite being miles off the podium times. They enjoy it and that’s the main thing.
Eldest one also seems talented for cricket and had an unsuccessful scout by Surrey at the weekend , despite being 2 years younger than her peers.
My job now really is purely taxi service and support their interests, the only thing I ‘bully’ them on is their core schoolwork , ensuring homework is done early etc. I have zero desire to influence their subject choice .
She just got gold in 100m at her school sports day, and bronze in 300m (which I didn’t even think was a distance)Gumboot wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 9:03 amThat was pretty much my game plan, too. Got her to where she wanted to be, on time, and then let her figure out if it was worth pursuing or not.Yeeb wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:51 am Interesting thread , lots of topics here like parents dreams, attractiveness V success , natural talent v working hard
Personally, I only ever wanted to be a pilot as a kid, turns out colour blindness zapped that idea - I liked economics and lived near to London, gf at the time was from London, so naturally fell into the city as it was relatively well paid for sitting in a comfortable office and talking to people and press the occasional button. I now have a comfortable if not spectacular life, which suits my laziness and natural (lack of) mega talent perfectly.
My own kids seem pretty talented at swimming so they are doing that competitively and elder ones just started international events , getting some PB’s despite being miles off the podium times. They enjoy it and that’s the main thing.
Eldest one also seems talented for cricket and had an unsuccessful scout by Surrey at the weekend , despite being 2 years younger than her peers.
My job now really is purely taxi service and support their interests, the only thing I ‘bully’ them on is their core schoolwork , ensuring homework is done early etc. I have zero desire to influence their subject choice .
Yeah, I'm the same, played lots of sports throughout my life and been decent at rugby, golf, basketball, shinty and indoor rowing. Competed at all at a decent level but personally never been more than journeyman standard at any with the exception of shinty, where there is no bloody money.yermum wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:12 am As a life long dilettante there is something to be said for having lots of different interests and passions. I play piano, draw, race my bike, run marathons, work in sports medicine, make techno and jungle music etc etc. all to varying degrees of mediocrity.
We don’t all have to be rocket surgeon astronauts.
