“If you love what you do it won’t feel like work”

As I grew up I always heard that. No matter where I was. If I was with family, with friends, at home, at school. It was the one line that people just said. But by grade 12 I was like I get it I know if you love what you do it won’t feel like work. But why do you have to keep telling me? 

I didn’t fully understand it. I was also just annoyed by everyone telling me. Deep down I never really took it in. I never really thought about it. I was in high school and I didn’t want a job yet so I didn’t have to worry about loving a job or not. Must admit I was very broke in high school but I still didn’t care about getting a job. 

But I have graduated and well I kinda need to get a job. I want to depend on myself and not others. But covid is still stopping me from getting a job so I’m still not worrying about a job I love I just want a job. I just want money.

 However a few weeks ago. I started going more depth with freelance writing. I started getting some clients, I was writing my blogs, editing my blogs and posting on Pinterest for my blog. At first, I didn’t really think anything of it because I love writing so I was working hard to get everything out on time.

But a couple of days ago I was doing all my work and I spent about five hours doing straight work. It went from 9 am to 2 pm. I didn’t eat lunch, wasn’t on my phone and I just sat on the couch in the same spot. I looked at my mom then back at the time and was like “Woah I have been working for five hours”.

However, I didn’t think anything of it till a couple of hours later. I kept thinking about how much work I got done. I was really proud of myself. But I was shocked that I didn’t take any breaks since I get distracted super easily especially with my phone beside me. 

But what I realized was that. It’s not because I was super focused. Well, that does have a percentage but it was because I love writing. 

I love writing for clients I love writing blogs. I loved getting my work out there. All those times where people said if you love what you do it won’t feel like work. I finally understand what it meant. Ever since I was young I loved writing. But I didn’t think of it as a job till grade twelve. 

Writing is something I love doing and knowing that I can turn writing into a job makes me happy. The one thing I say to people is I don’t do it just because I love writing I do it because some people need an escape from reality.

They just need a couple of minutes to sit and relax and if I can do that for them then I will. Writing for people is something that I love and I’m lucky that I can turn it into a job and make money from it. Is writing a hard job? Yes. Will I keep writing for people and one day make good money from it? Yes I will. It does suck that writing can be hard job when it comes to making money.

But I know that one day I will make good money from it. Probably giving up on the way but I will keep writing. Letting people escape and maybe one day all the hard work will pay off.