Hi,
I am about to make a critical career choice.
I searched my life purpose for years,
Recently I watched all videos of Leo and they helped me a lot,
Now I took life purpose course (that is helping me a lot too)
But "focusing and mastering on just one thing" idea made a little crisis in me, because I was just starting a system that focusing on two things. I want to discuss if this "focusing on one thing" is unquestionable rule or are there any gray areas?
All the opinions are valuable, I will try to keep it simple and short as possible
My first passion was strategy games from early childhood, I was pretty good at chess and pc strategy games.
I studied computer engineering at college ( I don't even remember why, probably because I loved computer games)
I became pretty succesful on strategy pc-gaming while I was at university. I was at top 3 on my country. Even though I was passionate and really good at gaming, the outcome seem unsatisfying to me. I didn't want to play games and die all my life even if I make money, so I shifted my interest to something more meaningful and I interested art as a hobby.
After school I became a programmer for a couple of years but I HATED that job. I was missing that excitement when I was playing strategy games. Then I said I will not do anything that is not giving me that excitement and quited my job and started searching.
So I started to think about being an artist.
I was playing guitar for a while. Even though I was not talented at all, I trained like fucking crazy so I became guitar teacher. But then I realized teaching was not my thing and I was making so little money. I was interesting on "creating" art more. I started training on vocal and started writing poems to make my own music. Then my vocal teacher convinced me expecting direct return by creating songs is too risky and challenging, you are sacrificing your art to make money at some point. After all you need money to publish your albums etc. and music industry is really disgusting in my country.
At that time I was making video clips for my recordings and I thought cinema would be nice. Then I worked on movie making for 1-2 years. I learned a lot about visual expression but work conditions were heavy, I had time issues and still couldn't make good money and clearly cinema was not my ultimate life purpose. So I said "if I can't make good money and set time for music, why the hell I am doing this?" and quited that too
Then I started to training on animation because animation seem the area I can combine all my accumulated skills. More fun and high in income than being a cinema worker.
So I spent a time like 1-2 year next to my family and made animation video clips for my music for portfolio and learning the job. I wanted to promote my music too at the same time by those clips.
Animation is fine and fun really, but as I was working on my projects and doing life purpose course I realized songwriting/singing is my ultimate life purpose without a doubt. Finally I am certain on this. I started to feel that magical excitement that I had playing strategy games as I publish my songs. Actually I've been certain for a long time but I had fears and my vocal teacher had a big impact on me.
But I spent so much time and consumed my resources already. I don't see anything impossible really, I believe I can be a songwriter/musician and make money from it even in my country. But I am aware that it is a long process, I shouldn't expect to make 2-3 songs and immediately start to make money. I should make long-time deliberate working plan until make it happen. So I planned making money from animation and working on my music would be a good idea. I will look for a job on animation after my last project finish this month.
But this approach contradicts "focus and master just one thing" idea . I agree with this idea and I would really love to focus on just my music like a prayer, but really seems like there is no way money return in short term as I said.
So, do you think it is ok to be divided on two different areas in this situation?
