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RE: How Important is it to Find "Meaning" in Your Work?
Some great points raised here. I'm a self employed videographer of over 10 years and still loving it - I couldn't imagine doing anything else as a job (and have refused 9-5 video jobs so far!)
I support a family of three others, so as much as the pressure is there to financially provide, I still treat the idea of flexibility/family time/my own boss as being equally important.
I do believe its important to find meaning in your work; and in this sense I define meaning as being simply doing something you are really good at.
Nice article, got me thinking :)
Cool that you've been able to do that for 10 years! I bet you've seen a lot of changes in that field — these days, pretty much everyone with a smartphone fancies themselves a "movie maker."
The pressure "to provide" is probably my least favorite aspect of self-employment, but I guess we just do what we have to do.