I think the title is quite strange and to be honest it feels weird to say that statement.

What I mean is, I am not sure if I should be okay long term working a job that doesn’t totally connect with me in order to be able to do something else. My friend Jesse was sharing with me the other day that his musician friends know that they are successful when they no longer have to do a side job to be able to keep playing music, suggesting that they are making enough at their music to no longer need to be paid by another job.

I have taken on the task of being a bi-vocational pastor of my church (that’s a loaded statement and another discussion, which i may have taken on before in this blog, but i digress) and the job I do I do in order to pay the bills and keep doing this church thing. Now I don’t hate my other job, in fact it is very rewarding but I am more in love with idea that I shouldn’t have to do another job in order to do the thing I love.

I am still asking myself the question whether pastoring is the job for me full-time (that also is a discussion for another time and probably one i spoke about in here as well and I know I have talked in great length with nick about), but the truth of the discussion still stands, should we dream that we can work the a job that we love and make a living at it or is that just a pipe dream that i should quickly abandon and believe only happens in movies, and fairy tales and of course to 1 in 1,000,000,000 people. (And BTW I am not simply talking about people who love being engineers and the such, I want to include professional actors, athletes, artists and so on).

I am sure I could be looking in the wrong place, or maybe the job of Pastor is one that should always be done bi-vocationally and then maybe it becomes my hobby? OK, getting back to the point, I want that “job” that fulfills me in all areas of life so that I don’t have to do a job to be able to do something else. Do you hear what I am saying? How do you find that? Is it worth it? Any real life stories?