The problem is how to transition a hobby to a job specifically, wildlife photography. People do it ( make a hobby/passion a career) and it always presented as magic or luck. I am just curious how you smart and creative guys would tackle the issue if you were in my shoes...

I sense a J-type....heehehehe

clifton...i still think youre missing the point...your entire comment flew over my head..drop the corporate lingo and get real...

Since my other comment is off topic... Here is the number one Challenge I face as an individual: How does a career corporate middle manage change roles to entreprenuer. Being in a certain role I never had to develop sales skills, although I understand marketing I suck at sales. I also have always functioned with 3 to 10 decision makers above my pay grade. This limits the actual ability to execute. Outline a brief plan to develop the proper entreprenuerial skills to step away from the corporate cubicle (disclaimer: I have the largest cubicle in the world, yet it still sucks being stuck in one {cubicle is ~400k sq ft}). Plan should include a methodolgy for developing sales skills, as all the marketing in the world is useless if I can't close the sale promptly.

Need more info...In order to generate solutions, the problem must be more clearly defined... Details Details Details!

I have a question about living your dreams... I am currently a web developer with a hobby of wildlife photography. I want to work towards making that my career. Any advice?

I will repost the comment after the show. I have already e-mailed it to Jared, and did not read it myself, as to not have a head start on what your ideas are. Trust me, if you want to spend days helping any of my readers on anything, have at it. The best way to demonstrate your skills is to give them away. I gave away a lot of photoshoots at the start.

Ori. Dont worry, we will have plenty of stuff to discuss on the show...remember you have me at your disposal...The kid who endlessly generates ideas...I could spend 40 minutes helping this guy alone...Can you please show my comment, I was just getting started, I have plenty more suggestions for him. Trust me, your audience will be entertained

Uhhhh.... questions are supposed to be asked on here so we have stuff to discuss on the show tonight... I will hide the comment you just posted, and send it to JRogers- you can use what you wrote, or think about it some more.

I would recommend the book that Ori recommended to me, the 4-hour workweek if you havent read it. Your passions are your passions, but realize that because our society is so brainwashed, there is no market for your art. People are selfish and do not want to invest money in things that do not inflate their own ego. Art becomes valuable when the artist dies, and then their work becomes a rare commodity...enough people suddenly decide that their work is a "masterpeice" and the price skyrockets. Look at Jackson Pollack....All he did was splatter fucking paint all over a canvas. I could do that, you could do that. But if we reproduce that, art critics and other related morons will claim that there is something special about Pollack's work that your work doesnt have. Really, they have just over-analyzed the thing. There may not be a way to earn a living doing photography...There is a TON of competition, every day I stumble upon people that produce the most astonishing pictures I have ever seen...They have already invested so much into their craft that it is almost hopeless to think that I will be able to compete with them on a professional level. I love photography too, but I certainly cannot hope to ever make a career out of it. I love making music, but the record industry is rigged, and so believing that I will be able to achieve mainstream success in that field, is a long-shot to say the least. You cant put all your eggs in one basket, as they say. Its the same deal with any art- the equipment is expensive and once you have a final product- What do you do with it? I think you're looking at it the wrong way, you should continue to produce art for arts sake, not for the almighty dollar...When I sit down at the piano, I get filled with this feeling like I belong there, I connect with the instrument and it becomes a tool to express myself- that feeling alone keeps me playing the piano...I dont think I'm going to be the next Mozart or Dave Brubeck, I just love it. I dont care whether or not it ever makes me any money because there are OTHER ways to make money, and if i set expectations for myself then, in the long run I am just going to end up disappointed and stressed-out that I didnt achieve what was an unrealistic goal to begin with...Just follow your heart and everything else falls into place. You say you've got a 50+ hour work week...that sounds soul-crushing to me...I know when I was forced to sit in High School. I wanted to die. I thought I had this long, hopeless life ahead of me filled with people that would NEVER understand my perspective. I started asking teachers personal questions and found that most of them had other dreams they had given up on and had settled for the "realistic" goal of being a teacher...for such lame reasons as "it has great benefits" and so on and so forth...The good teachers...they were the ones who said to me " I teach because I love to teach." And thats all there is to it. Do what you love...if you dont love what you do, it controls your mind and destroys your spirit.

I'm going to be at work during the broadcast so I'll have to catch the podcast :(But I DO have a question for you TJ! I've got a 50+ hour a week retail management job that carry's with it a rigid yet unpredictable schedule that I can't afford to quit, a passion for photography that I can't ignore, and what feels like no free time. I don't really have money to invest, or to hire help... So how do I find a way to earn a living doing something I enjoy? Doesn't seem like there's enough money in freelance photography to make a living and even if there was, no technical education or time to really refine the craft makes it tough to have much faith in my ability to jump into it yet.My current plan: keep shooting, looking for opportunities, learning what I can whenever I can, networking, offering to do any pro-bono work that I can find/have time for... I recently launched <a href="http://www.rogersglobal.com" target="_blank">www.rogersglobal.com to get my feet wet. It just feels like I'm getting older and at the rate I'm going a decade will have passed before I can produce mensurable results. Think I'm on the right path? Think a radical change is needed/possible? Am I missing something completely?