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Hey everyone, I am voice with Warikku.

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here with you. Career,

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Today is Thursday, my favorite

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Voice with Warikku. So

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the other day I was reading

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about this founder called Brian Armstrong.

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Brian Armstrong is a startup

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Coinbase founder. Coinbase is one of

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the US's largest brokerage companies. So

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just in India, I am a

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real estate user. And

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he explains how he built Coinbase on

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nights and weekends while working in

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his day job at Airbnb. So

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he basically describes how he full-time jobs at Airbnb.

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And he would often work at Airbnb till

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about 7pm or so. Then

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he would come home, eat dinner and

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then he would start working from 8pm to

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midnight. Then he would do the same thing

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3-4 days a week and he

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would also do it on weekends. But

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weekends he would then work for 7-8 hours. And

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I personally believe that that is

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a very smart way to

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think about your passion. I

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feel that this approach either comes from a point of

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privilege, that

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you can quit your job to follow your passion, or

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more often it comes from absolute

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foolishness. And here is why I

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think it is foolish. When

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you quit your job, and

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especially when you are not yet

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financially stable, it means

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that the pressure of earning money will

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fall on your passion from

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day one. From

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day one, you can't make any money. So

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from day one itself, you

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will have to force your passion to

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start thinking about money. And

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that will convert your passion into

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your profession before you even

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got a chance to build

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that passion out. So let's say

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your passion is teaching, your passion is singing, your

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passion is dancing. There is

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no way that you're going to make money from

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that, from day one. But because you don't have

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a money source now, because you've quit your job

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to follow your passion, you

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will be forced to now

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think of teaching, dancing, singing

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as a profession, as something you have to

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earn money from. You've basically

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killed your passion. So

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here is my three-step

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process in how do you convert

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your passion into a profession. First,

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stay in your job. Stay

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in your job as long as it doesn't physically or

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emotionally harm you. So the job

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is not toxic, it

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pays the bills, stay in that. Number

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two, work nights, weekends,

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holidays on your passion. Do

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everything that you need to do without putting the

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pressure of making money from it. Learn

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from your mistakes, fail, improvise and

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continue doing it. Your job is

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paying the bills. Your

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passion is simply getting discovered. And

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step number three, when your passion

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income predictably becomes higher than

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your professional income, you

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can now consider quitting your job. That

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is how I would play it. At

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least three months where your passion

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income has been higher than your

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professional income. If you hit that,

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I think you are on a way to consider quitting

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your job and it will not

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be a foolish decision if you do

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decide to do so. However,

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don't kill your passion the

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day you decide to raise

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it. Please

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give it time to nurture.

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Give it time to develop. give

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it time to hone it. And

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the way to do that is to have

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financial stability. And for most of us, that

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will come by staying in a

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job. All

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the best.