In my previous post I discussed ways that I can save time in order to do what I really want to do. I realized that all of my ways of saving time have the same end goal of enabling me to transition onto a new career path. Thus, it isn’t really that I want to save time. The real issue is that I want a different career.

In this post, I’m going to review what my ideal career really is, and what the issues and blocks are that have held me back. My aim is that by the end of this article I’ll have a better understanding of the practical steps I need to take in order to achieve my goal.

So to begin, let’s clarify exactly what my ideal career is.

My Ideal Career

So what is my ideal career? I’ve ran through the steps of figuring out what my ideal career is, and what I came up with is pretty interesting. My ideal career can best be described as a kind of spiritual counselor. In this career I would have two primary functions.

The first function would be that of a researcher and explorer. I love exploring, researching, and discovering new things. I love the human mind, brain, and consciousness, and I already enjoy doing my own experiments, which you can find on the main page of this site. I would be like a consciousness, spiritual, or psychological researcher. You can have your pick.

The second function would be that of a spiritual counselor. The purpose of this function would be to encourage inner transformation and healing in other people. I understand that there are billions of people on the planet who suffer needlessly. People who are confused, frightened, disconnected, and misunderstood. It would be my greatest pleasure in life to ease the suffering of such people. To take people from internal states of hell, misery, and agony, and elevate them to a state of happiness, joy, inner peace, and beauty. In this role, I would effectively be a human elevator.

The Great Dilemma

I have known that this is my ideal career for a long time. I never really knew what name to give to it, but I always new that my ideal career would involve the mind, doing research, and helping other people. And yet, somehow I’m now a software developer. Go figure.

Of course, I didn’t just wake up as a software developer. I taught myself how to program in high school, got a job doing programming work, and then I went to college for it. So this was really all my own doing. I can’t possibly blame anyone else for it.

The primary reason I chose software development over my ideal career really comes down to money and time. If I want to become a professional therapist or psychologist I need years of education. Since I already knew how to program, slipping into the software development world was pretty easy, and it pays fairly well.

Of course there are other alternatives to this approach. There are several jobs where the primary aim is helping others. But now that I have really defined what my ideal career is, I think the only way for me to really pull it off is to go into business for myself. But how can I make money off of pursuing my ideal career? How do I make a living?

Making A Living

There is a number of different ways that I can make a living by choosing my ideal career. As a spiritual counselor I can help people to transcend problems, issues, and barriers that they may be facing in their everyday life. If I did this I could sell hourly sessions to individuals or groups, which should cover my day to day living expenses.

I could also be a writer and get paid using advertisements or by selling books to people. This would give me a much broader audience and more people would be able to benefit from my work. If I have a big enough audience, I should be able to make a living doing this as well.

The research and experiments I do could also be sold directly to people using some kind of monthly subscription plan. If someone wants to support my research and experiments, they can ’sponsor’ me, and thus be given access to the experiment results. Alternatively, I could use advertisements, or I can beg people for donations.

These are just a few examples of how I could make money while doing what I love. All of these things, however, require a certain degree of traffic and interest from other people. Just like any other job or profession, I would be relying on other people to support my work. Which may or may not happen.

But, of course, that’s not going to stop me from trying.

The Transition Period

There is one last thing that I still need to address here, and that is the transition period. I can’t just quit my day job tomorrow and pray that I succeed with the above plan. I’m fairly crazy, but I’m not that crazy.

But on the other side, I need a tremendous amount of time and energy to put into this silly plan of mine. And I need to see financial results. Before I quit my job and fully implement the above plan, I would need to already be making enough money to cover my living expenses. It’s almost like a chicken and egg deal. I need time to invest in this new venture of mine so it’ll make money. But I need money to cover my living expenses, so I need to keep working at my day job.

The only real option I see now is to work on my new venture in my spare time, and pray that it works out someday. Hopefully, with any luck, I should be able to find my way out of this maze someday. But for today, I’m just going to focus on that next step.

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