What is it you do to earn a living? Why?
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I write because I enjoy the adventures it puts me in.
I write because I enjoy the adventures it puts me in.
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MsAlaineEYes · F
Thank you for starting an interesting and sincere inquiry and possibly legitimate answers. I love the sound of your adventures.
I've mostly volunteered (music, singing, songwriting, social media, community and event planning) and was just blessed but it did not support my family or me. When I left the work force about 10 years ago, I wanted to pursue my writing: two books in draft. One "self-help" and one memoir type. Well, I had to relocate and moved to North Carolina where I worked at "jobs" for a few years...and then I realized that I could EMPLOY MYSELF rather than "work for the man" (no sexism intended), I just refuse to work for an hourly wage to make money for someone else; man or woman.
I found that I could help people, serve Humanity and volunteer but be recompensed generously for my time, licenses and knowledge (24 CEs every two years) plus about continue to study at least 10 hours of product training each week. I always wanted to be a Professional and not punch a time clock. And that is exactly what I do as a Licensed Independent Life and Health Insurance Provider in 4 states, adding 5 more by the end of the year. It's nice to write a few policies, probably about 30 hrs a week but I feel like I am constantly "in it" and starting off making easily DOUBLE of what I did "in the office" with benefits and timeclocks. No one pays me and everyone thanks me. I get to help people AND earn a good livelihood, finally...
O MY SERVANT!
The best of men are they that earn a livelihood by their calling and spend upon themselves and upon their kindred for the love of God, the Lord of all worlds. The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i faith)
I've mostly volunteered (music, singing, songwriting, social media, community and event planning) and was just blessed but it did not support my family or me. When I left the work force about 10 years ago, I wanted to pursue my writing: two books in draft. One "self-help" and one memoir type. Well, I had to relocate and moved to North Carolina where I worked at "jobs" for a few years...and then I realized that I could EMPLOY MYSELF rather than "work for the man" (no sexism intended), I just refuse to work for an hourly wage to make money for someone else; man or woman.
I found that I could help people, serve Humanity and volunteer but be recompensed generously for my time, licenses and knowledge (24 CEs every two years) plus about continue to study at least 10 hours of product training each week. I always wanted to be a Professional and not punch a time clock. And that is exactly what I do as a Licensed Independent Life and Health Insurance Provider in 4 states, adding 5 more by the end of the year. It's nice to write a few policies, probably about 30 hrs a week but I feel like I am constantly "in it" and starting off making easily DOUBLE of what I did "in the office" with benefits and timeclocks. No one pays me and everyone thanks me. I get to help people AND earn a good livelihood, finally...
O MY SERVANT!
The best of men are they that earn a livelihood by their calling and spend upon themselves and upon their kindred for the love of God, the Lord of all worlds. The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i faith)
Coletracer · M
@MsAlaineEYes Many years ago, I considered getting into the insurance field but it wasn't my calling, I went to Bible College, it was interesting but not my calling, I studied other "not my calling" avenues and fell into construction which became a major love and truly became my calling. Another calling hounded me that had been with me since my early school days and the adventures of Huck Finn, it was writing from my own imagination which served me well through the years. I write because I love to write and if in the process, others find joy in my words, it becomes a bonus.
MsAlaineEYes · F
@helenS Exactly; progressive revelation. Each one is built upon the other. Like seeing only a facet of a diamond at a time. Or like the Buddhist proverb of the Elephant; one sees the Elephant (God) as a tree by seeing it's think tree-like legs, another sees a snack, in it's trunk and something else in its ears...we each see from our perpective...
as Paul said in the Holy Bible New Living Translation
"Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!" Christianity and Baha'i are closer than most would initially understand at first.
as Paul said in the Holy Bible New Living Translation
"Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!" Christianity and Baha'i are closer than most would initially understand at first.
MsAlaineEYes · F
@Coletracer I can hear in your writing that you are at peace and really loving who and where you are in your life. Congrats on finding and fulfilling your calling by what you love and earning a livelihood while you are at it. 🙌