I love dance so much. How do I decide if I want it as a career or just a hobby? | Life and style

I am very confused. I love the dance so much that I have been working on a career there has always been, but now I wonder if it’s just a fun hobby. I am not sure I can do it as a dancer, because I think that I am not so good and that I continue to hurt. I also heard that dance careers are difficult and that work environments are not nice. How can I decide if I want this as a career or just as a hobby?

Eleanor says: Big question. No, am I a dancer, but how can I decide to be a dancer?

The advantages and disadvantages you probably know. Creative fulfillment on the one hand, financial insecurity on the other; Feel passionate about your work in relation to a long career calendar. You can put the advantages and disadvantages in two columns and spend a lot of time looking at the count. How are you supposed to weigh “artistic accomplishment” against money? Injury against passion? What type of standardized unit are these things supposed to share?

“Do I continue my dreams” the decisions are so difficult, in part because they only deal with possibilities. You cannot decide to be a professional dancer. You can only decide to try be a professional dancer. And you can decide the amount of other that you will sacrifice to improve your chances. But this last crucial distance between trying and succeeding can only be filled by luck.

It is therefore not quite a decision on being a professional dancer. It’s no longer like a bet. What are you ready to bet? This can be a more useful way to think of the choice than to weigh the advantages and disadvantages.

It is not only that you can injure yourself or that you can succeed. This is also the type of misfortune that you prefer to avoid. What do you want to guarantee that you are not faced: injury or regret not to follow a passion? An unstable or boring career? You see the model. “What do you want” and “what did you stop avoiding it” proves to be slightly different questions. When the deliberation stops on one, it may be useful to switch to the other.

Because I think we live in a fairly tried culture with many “go ahead” shots, let me add two notes of prudence.

The first is that your priorities may change as you get older. Even if it is really difficult to imagine being a distant advanced self, try to notice all the ways that your decision could now prevent you from revising your priorities later. For example, for example, financial security is not very important now. It is good but to a certain extent, you cannot take it back. The compound interest will not leave you. A future self that appreciates financial security more than you do currently may wish that the decision has been different. Ditto with the injury, have a family, where you live; We weigh things differently in different chapters of life. If you are going to take a bet that could complicate a future me to get this they Value, I think it’s worth it to be careful and clear eyes. You are your best protector.

The other is that transforming the activity you like in the way you earn money can change the activity. You must compete and request money and point out by people distributing money and internalize their standards of success. Over time, you start to make creative choices for invoices. This should not prevail over passion. But if you make dance your work, there will be times when it will only look like hard work.

There is a world in which dance can be part of your career choice without being part of your livelihood. In this world, you find a job with the kind of hour and income that allow you to dance for joy.

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