Loving what you do
Just when I thought I was becoming a well-seasoned veteran as a parent, we’ve been dealt yet another curve ball with a Tuesday Federal holiday and a daycare closure. With all due respect to the veterans, I don’t ever recall being granted this holiday off in the past and both Sophia and I were shocked to find out that we’d have to be home with Colin today. It’s going to be a challenging day navigating work and childcare, but we’ll get through it.
On another note, I saw a tweet from UW radio broadcaster Tony Castricone yesterday and it had me thinking even into today. It was a long tweet but described his hectic 24 hours flying to cover the UW football team in Madison and then the UW basketball team the following day in Waco before flying back to Seattle.
Tony said something in the Tweet that really stuck with me.
“They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.
I disagree. I think if you love what you do, you’ll never work harder on anything else, and that’s why you’ll be successful at what you love.
Happy to be home and grateful to do this everyday. 🙏”
I do believe I like my job, but that cliche quote that I’ll never work a day in my life has never resonated with me. For one, despite really loving my job building a firm like Secfi, there’s a lot of things that you have to do as part of that job that just downright isn’t fun. Of course there’s parts of company building that feel more like work versus working on a passion project.
That’s why I loved Tony’s adjustment to the cliche quote. I do love what I do, and while it’s not all fun and games all the time, there’s nothing I’ve worked harder on before in my life than building Secfi.