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When we are going to college, our school and the whole world expects us that
we already knew what we want to do for the rest of our lives. We have this concept
that through studying, we can turn our dreams and passion into reality and we will be
happy.
from our burden. But I am afraid that I might not be able to convert my passion into a
source of income right away. I realized that passion is not all unicorns and rainbows. I
decided to fleetingly set aside my dreams and find other options; options that could
I engaged in buy and sell clothing business few years ago. The investment was
not huge because I didn’t had enough funds. However, I was able to reach more than
50% of profit from my investment. It was enough to sustain my tuition fee way back in
college. Since then, I focused my attention to my small business but it didn’t became
successful in the long run. Due to the pandemic, the demands of clothing decreases. I
had less buyers and lesser interested customers. Because of this, I came up with the
idea of shifting my business that suits with the demand of the situation today. After
several evaluation, I came up with the idea of business operations. I realized that I
lacked outlining. Drafting key targets and determining attainable financial goals should
be the steps. Of course, business is nothing without profit. Next phase is figuring out if
this type of business is the preference of the people today. In other words, if it is timely
and in trend it can be a great advantage in marketing your products or services I had
my experience of business failure because of not having prior research of what is more
essential today. COvId-19 made vast changes from all walks of life globally. What
implies to this is we also have to make changes and adapt to what our society needs.
We can start by small business ideas like selling goods or foods online with delivery
services or any products will do. Since the virus is still around the corner, online
business can greatly suit for now. The most interesting part is that we can do our small
To be honest, business was not really my passion. But I cannot make enough
profit by focusing on my passions alone. Bills, expenses, and debts don’t care if we are
passionate or not. As time passes by, our demands increase. Our needs and wants
become more complex. We cannot only decide to choose the path that leads only to our
personal interests because we also care about other factors. Those factors might
Money and passion both buy a certain threshold of happiness. Not everyone has
been given a chance to be on both track at once. But deny it or not, we desire
guarantees in life may be it on a state that is monetarily profitable or a phase that is full
of passion and love or both for some. We always do our utmost to achieve our desires.
The leap of faith might be risky but we will never know if we don’t try. The ball is in our
court.
Resources:
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