Raymond K. Nakamura

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Ways to Occupy One's Self

Elizabeth Gilbert distinguished hobbies, jobs, careers and vocations.

It seemed that it lent itself to a graph involving love and money.

Hobby: something you do for fun. It’s optional. For me, that’s hockey.

Job: Something you do for money. You might like it or not. But it’s your responsibility to be responsible. Respect it for it is. When I was younger, I was a bus boy over the summer.

Career: Something you are committed to and you can live off. If you don’t love doing this. Find another career. This seems to be museum education, although I haven’t been doing so much lately.

Vocation: Something you would do no matter what. It might become a job or a career as well. Though this can get tricky. This is writing and cartooning, which I might be confusing with a career.

My interpretation of what Elizabeth Gilbert described.