A vocation vs an avocation…and trying to do both.

There is a blog I read regularly, one whose author I suspect would not want the extra publicity, that wrote a recent blog post about work and the quality of life.

Two items that seemed esp poignant to me in his blog post:

• Trying to sustain the work-long hike-work -long hike-work-long hike balance is hard to sustain unless you *only* want to do long hikes
• If you are anxiously looking at the clock on a Sunday night and perhaps a bit depressed, time for a different job

In my twenties and early thirties, I was definitely in the first mode. I’d pick up a job, save money, and go hiking.  The jobs I ended up working were not your typical (for outdoors people) Outward Bound or similar type jobs. It ended up being IT jobs aka “computer stuff”.

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