Outdoor Guide career path... Alderleaf vs Anake

[Alaskan Survivalist]

When I was young I was told to "find something you enjoy doing and then figure out how to get paid for it". It sounded good but in retrospect is one of the dumbest things I ever heard. The best way to get bored and suck the joy out of something you love is to turn it into a job. When you work, work and when you play, play.

[BENESSE]

There's a lot of wisdom in that AS, and up until very recently I just didn't want to admit it even to myself.

See, I picked something I loved to do and made it my profession. And as long as I was doing that exclusively I was happy. But no job stays 100% the same throughout your career. If you progress and "grow", stuff you don't like to do as much starts intruding. At that point you are so vested in it that the good part is enough to see you through. For a while.
I loved what I did (guess still do) and was so dedicated and wrapped up in it, that there was little time for anything else. With a job like mine you can work 24/7 and it still might feel as though you could do more. I think perhaps the same might be true of a lot of jobs that aren't 9-5, although I can't think of any that are strictly 9-5 these days.

What I'm trying to say is this: when you pick something that defines you (that also needs to pay your bills) and you encounter snags along the way, you take it personally and much harder than just doing a "regular" job. Your highs are higher but the lows are truly crushing and balance is harder to achieve.

[Rick]

To me it's pretty simple. Life is a series of compromises. You compromise what you want to do with what you have to do to raise your family. As you age (mature, I hope) you find that providing for your family is a whole lot more important than "saving the planet". So you do what you can in your own part of the world (recycle, don't litter, kind of stuff). It's a compromise.

I don't have any regrets. If I found I didn't like what I was doing then I did something else. I tried to captain my own ship and not let someone else fill the sails with their air.

[Rick]

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