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		<title>What Are You Working On?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin had a great post today - I quote it below: What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you're wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there's a way to create a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/what-are-you-working-on.html">Seth Godin had a great post today</a> - I quote it below:</p>
<blockquote><p>What are you working on?</p>
<p>If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer?</p>
<p>I hope so. If not, you're wasting away.</p>
<p>No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there's a way to create a project (on your own, on weekends if necessary), where the excitement is palpable, where something that might make a difference is right around the corner.</p>
<p>Hurry, go do that.</p></blockquote>
<p>That's the spirit behind Going Pro without Quitting Your Day Job (read more in <a href="http://avocationist.com/index.php/2010/11/01/mid-life-career-change/go-pro-part-1/">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://avocationist.com/index.php/2010/12/18/mid-life-career-change/go-pro-part-2/">Part 2</a>).  You don't have to wait to try anything. There is a way to do it small, now. </p>
<p>What do you wish you were doing now?</p>
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		<title>How to start work you love while staying in your day job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Avocationist had a great summer, including 3 weeks in Paris courtesy of a home exchange with a French family. My family and I arranged this trip using HomeExchange.com, a company founded by Ed Kushins. Ed started his service while running a separate business full-time. He had a long-term view towards having a fun job [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class = "left" src='http://avocationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/eiffel-tower.jpg' alt='Eiffel Tower' hspace="5" vspace="5" />The Avocationist had a great summer, including 3 weeks in Paris courtesy of a home exchange with a French family.  My family and I arranged this trip using <a href="http://homeexchange.com">HomeExchange.com</a>, a company founded by Ed Kushins.  Ed started his service while running a separate business full-time. He had a long-term view towards having a fun job for his retirement. Later this week, I'll post the first of my interviews with Ed. In the interview, you will get insights into Ed's thoughts on:</p>
<p>1. How do you start work you are passionate about if you cannot leave your job?<br />
2. How do you know when it is the right time to start a new company?<br />
3. What's the best way to try out a "potential passion"? </p>
<p>Also, look for upcoming interviews with a software salesman-turned trainer and online entrepreneur, the man whose love of music inspired him to start the first online music channel and a music promoter turned ministry student turned music promoter turned minister/music promoter... (<em>Photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/franz88/761420786/">franz88</a></em>).</p>
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		<title>Welcome to Avocationist!</title>
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