Explains a concept with storiesfrom @thejaunt_

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Feel like when you're pursuing your dreams, there'll be jobs that will come into your life to tempt you to give up on your dreams because they're kind of tangential to what you wanted to do, but not quite. Like, let's say you wanna be a drummer in a band. I saw this example from Harry Mack. He was saying like you wanna be a drummer in a band, but then you start giving drumming lessons to people and you're doing well with that. And then that kind of starts to spin up into a business. And now you have this whole business where you teach drumming lessons and you're making good money and you're like, well, this is better than working in the call center. But then he's like, you gotta you gotta remember you wanted to be a drummer. You wanted to be a drummer on stage. You didn't wanna be a drum teacher. And, like, these shadow jobs, he calls them, can distract you or suck you in right when you were about to actually kind of get towards your dreams. I had an experience like this years ago actually where I've always wanted to be a writer. I wanted to live on my ideas, and I got a job basically being a journalist for the tech industry. And it was cool because I had never been really paid to write before. And I was like, this is cool. They let me write about whatever I wanna write about within reason. I get paid a decent amount to do it. I worked from home. They didn't bug me. I was just kind of my own guy there. But then I ultimately left to do this full time because I was like, this is what I worst. You no, I didn't dream of being a tech journalist. I dreamed of being a writer and not really even a writer. I dreamed of being a person who just thinks for a living about whatever they want. That's exactly what I do no. But there was quite a few shadow jobs to tempt me along the way when I look back.