Sometimes I think about the same thing you're thinking about: "should I live my dream, or use my dream to supplement my life?" If you don't go into teaching (and instead get a job at a geology firm) you could make some good money and you might have time left over for your fun projects, instead of reading the newspaper every evening like my father
If you take up your pastime as work, it might lose its impetus as fun. Erin should respond to this; she has a job in video games now. I don't know if that's what she's always wanted, but it is more creative than the average job, and it'd be interesting to know if it takes away from her writing in any way.
Yeah... I'm always worried that committing myself to a more artistic means of gaining employment will ruin it for me. Plus, contrary to popular belief, I'm just not talented enough to make it professionally. Unless I have some latent talent in jewelry-making, glass-blowing, or wood-working (all of which I hope to investigate!), that is.
Also.. I really do think I'd like teaching. I catch myself thinking about that almost as often as I think about artistic endeavors. Research is interesting, but my heart is simply just not in it.
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If you take up your pastime as work, it might lose its impetus as fun. Erin should respond to this; she has a job in video games now. I don't know if that's what she's always wanted, but it is more creative than the average job, and it'd be interesting to know if it takes away from her writing in any way.
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Also.. I really do think I'd like teaching. I catch myself thinking about that almost as often as I think about artistic endeavors. Research is interesting, but my heart is simply just not in it.
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...$#*&@#.
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