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RE: Follow Your Passions! And... Just WHY Should We Do That?
Follow your passions by all means, but maybe not all the way to the poorhouse. Sometimes things that are not fun at all are the most financially rewarding, and sometimes pleasure should be deferred. Weigh the opportunity costs.
I've always tried to be reasonable about it. Some things just aren't meant to be "income producing," and I have no interest in blindly pursuing some dream... to the poorhouse. The fact that I actually managed to make a living from beach combing for four years was completely unexpected and not something I would ever "set my clock by," so to speak.
I am sorely tempted to buy a metal detector with some of my Steemit earnings for some serious beachcombing and prospecting. I've been reading up on which models might help find gold deposits that form in creeks in the mountains here.
You just never know till you try. Those guys with the "potato patch" near Liberty, WA keep hauling giant nuggets out of the ground. There was an old seaside dump here... and people keep finding random bits of jewelry on the beaches here, even 60 years after it was shut down.