Free from 9 to 5 Chronicles of people and ideas to inspire and achieve freedom from a 9 to 5 job

You’re free if you love your job

Another way to be free from a 9 to 5 is to really love what you do. Everyone is familiar with this. If you love what you do, then it won’t feel like a job. A prime example of someone who seems to have achieved this is Robert Scoble of Microsoft. He is a technical evangelist for Microsoft. Sort of like an informal grassroots marketing/PR guy. If you’ve been reading his weblog for a while, you can tell that he really likes his job. I bet, to him, his job doesn’t feel like a traditional 9 to 5 job.

Along the same vein, Steve Pavlina’s weblog contains a wealth of articles on finding your passion, your goals and your purpose in life. His weblog is about personal growth in general, but a subset of his articles focuses on finding out what you really want out of life, something that most traditional 9 to 5 jobs are at odds with. Steve completed a bachelor’s degree in something like 18 months, decided a 9 to 5 wasn’t for him, so he founded a successful PC game development company (Dexterity Software) and is now embarking on a new career in public speaking. Steve also has a bunch of great articles on his Dexterity website intended for independent game developers, but anyone looking to shed a 9 to 5 job would benefit from them.