Roadmap by Roadtrip Nation

Author:Roadtrip Nation [Roadtrip Nation]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2015-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Love + Making Money = Possible

Mixing what you love with how you make money is a process that can seem daunting—and starting it now can seem frighteningly mistimed, especially when you have rent to pay. But the important thing to remember is, it can be done, and not just by the lucky few. From a pure “I don’t want to move back in with my folks because they drive me freakin’ crazy” perspective, the power of this book hinges on this chapter.

The gist of it is: You can build a career aligned with who you are as an individual, and you can make money doing it.

There are, however, a few hurdles on that path. The first is probably obvious: to get paid for something, it helps to be skilled at it.

When we talk about skills, we don’t mean magical abilities. If your Foundation is your skeleton, and your Core Interests are the nervous system that sends the impulses that get you moving, your skills are the muscles, the heavy lifters that cause locomotion. And like real-life muscles, skills need to be exercised and developed. Your skills are built by activities and challenges that feed into your Foundation and Core Interests, but all of these things have to work together. You could be inherently skilled at logical, ordered thinking, but if you have zero interest in JavaScript or spending hours plotting out code, your skills would be wasted as a web developer.

So, back to the first hurdle. How do you get “good” at something? How do you develop skills in line with your Core Interests? You begin with what you love. Or what you like, if you have yet to figure out what you love. You just need to be engaged by something that interests you enough to put in the initial work. Your natural inclinations will guide you over the first hurdles. This isn’t the end by any means, but it’s the start. Before you know whether you’re (potentially) good at something, you have to try it.

Gary Rydstrom, a seven-time Oscar-winning sound designer at Skywalker Sound, didn’t really know he had a talent for sound design until he tried it: “You don’t know how good you are at things until you try them, which is why you have to be led by your passion—if you’re intrigued by something, it means you’ll put the energy into being good at it. But to be naturally good at things now is impossible.”

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