More than Money

I was thinking last night at work about the all-familiar question we ask kids, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I keep seeing a meme that I really do like. It's a quote from Steve Jobs about looking until you find a job you love. I think there's a lot of truth in that. But I think all too often we forget that if we love doing something, we should do it whether there is money to be made or not. We make money the be-all, end-all. And it's not. I was just thinking last night. Wal-Mart is definitely not my dream career. But it's a job that pays for me to help support my family. In the mean time, I am doing a lot of things that I am not making money at that are important to me. I'm almost finished with college (at least my bachelor's degrees). I am working on writing two books. I blog quite a bit. I love studying the lives of people. That is something I am getting back into. I plan and facilitate Bible studies. That is something that is extremely important to me, something I feel called to do. I have even been thinking of starting some kind of a classic reading group after I'm finished with this algebra class. Those are things that I love. I do them for enjoyment. If they ever pay me money to do them, all the better. But if they don't, I'm good with that. Just doing them is satisfaction (payment?) enough.