Quitting job to pursue passion? Is It Safe??

Dear Anand, if I have chosen something for myself, Why would I regret, Passion pays more than anything else. Passion is a human attribute not everyone in world have it, it’s the highest levels of creative capability, if such people are appreciated, assisted they are assets for the society, country, for the world.

In today’s world we need high levels of collaboration, Newton, Einstein; Rabindranath Tagore era is gone,

How many LPA (lac per annum) you make from an organization measure of your capability?

Who is in focus Mr. Ratan Tata or the designers, techies who were paid in LPA?

Hello Suresh

How sure are you that you will live another three years or 10 years from now. How Safe are you, how safe is your "safe" I mean tijori bank balance whatever.

Decision making builds on certain logics like a brick wall, if few fail the wall may crash. Choice is choice, you will never regret, passion driven people never decide they choose. For you it may be numbers; your bank balance, number of house, number of women in your life, so on so forth. From your stand point Passion is stupidity.

You’re writing a blog on too step is also some body's passion driving you, sit back and think for a while.      Are you paid? for writing blogs!!

That can be a tough one. It all depends on what you're passionate about and you have to learn the pros and cons about your passion. Then you weigh your options to see if it would be a lucrative, wise and beneficial idea to leave your job. You really have to look at your options and weigh your pros and cons.

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Definitely yes...for a goal, dream or whatever. We only have one life to fulfill our goals. For that reason, even if we quit the job it is simply justified I believe.

Gargi the topic is very good more than worth participating. But your own response seems to be very personal.

It takes real guts to pursue passion that too by quitting job. People succeed people fail. But then success and failure are everywhere. Not only this success has got different definition for different person. What is more important is that you know what is success for you and only then go for a change.

But at the same time you dont have to take words of somebody like me who has never shown guts of attempting such venture.

While passion is central to entrepreneurship of this kind, when it comes to taking the jump it would hold the entrepreneur in good stead to evaluate his readiness and assess the support/advise he would require in various areas. Having a business idea and managing a business, though related, are indeed two different competencies. As a first step, the aspiring entrepreneur needs to evaluate his readiness to take the leap, and once satisfied, then arrive at making the decision whether to follow his passion or not.

A tool for entrepreneurs to evaluate their readiness: Evaluate your readiness

Thanks for the reference Gargi!

From a practical standpoint I agree, its better to choose and invest time, money and energy in something we want to do. As this can only provide the utmost satisfaction even for an iota of achievement.

Daily basis we come across so many people who have certain hidden talent or passion for something but they keep themselves bound to the job leaving them highly frustrated. In such scenarios these resources are actually not contributing towards betterment of self or organisation, they are just nursing a time pass in the name of Job. Of course they have their valid reasons of being in job and not pursuing what they want to and I respect that.

But I believe its more to do with individual psychy, whether I want to create my own rules and play the game as per my standards  OR  I play with someone deciding the moves, someone deciding the game plan and I be just a dummy taking orders.

If we have passion for something we must imbibe courage to stand for it.

Staying put in job and pursuing passion half heartedly will do no good in eitherways.

Ya its true ,we can quit bcoz you have 100 % confidence in you,and have passion towards what you do.Then why not.Go ahead to see your success as a result.

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It is always better to pursue your goal or purpose or passion, but after careful practical planning ... I will talk from my experience;

I wanted to pursue my passion, but was not practical and clear about the plan and steps and therefore struggled/suffered with low skills in marketing and promoting myself, if that is taken care I see no reason why one should not pursue one's passion;

Also, one needs to take action steps without emotional slavery and not just leave jobs due to high emotions; I suffered due to that also ...

yes  it is the the individual satisfaction which matters most and rightly said

after examining the pros and cons.

Reasonably I should say No but I've observed than quitting a job for a passion can be a good thing for pleasure in life. Doing a job whoch is rellyboring can transform personality and make somebody sad and provoke deseases you cannot cure.

Changing for a passion as soon as you are careful enough to prepare and "build" it help enjoying life and be happy. With morphopsychology I often worked with people who changed because they were built to do something else. They could not be happy doing the job. It was really necessary for them to change for THIS occupation.

Yes, one should follow one's heart and explore more than what the current job role is. If there is a passion for entrepreneurship, it should be explored but only after a proper understanding and contemplation of the pitfalls.

If there is sufficient reason for taking a break(sabbatical) which could be either enhancing skill sets(or acquiring new ones), further studies or exploring new opportunities it would be good to take the plunge. Most corporates today take a lenient view of people who have taken a break especially for reasons mentioned above and later wish to come back to corporate life. It all depends on how you can sell your story, justify your action and most importantly market your skills.

Thank you for the referral, Gargi.