Liu Tong said: "Ideals sometimes have to rely on work to make a living, but ideals cannot disappear, because the future life also depends on ideals to survive." The curve saves the country, hobbies and reality coexist, and there are always moments when they complement each other. "Before your ability can support your ambition, please find a job and fill your stomach first.
I'm not opposed to doing my hobby as if it were a full-time job, but quitting your job or becoming a freelancer is something you need to look at the right time, not blindly.
Junichi Watanabe, a famous Japanese ** family, worked as a surgeon for 10 years before engaging in full-time writing, and he gave up medicine to pursue literature at the age of 35. At that time, heart transplantation was still being tried in Japan, and the technique was very unskilled, and Junichi Watanabe's Sapporo Medical University happened to offer such a surgery.
On one occasion, Junichi Watanabe questioned the death verdict of a heart provider during an operation, arguing that the patient was not brain dead. Unexpectedly, this offended the authority of the hospital and made it impossible for him to stay any longer, so he submitted his resignation and chose to leave.
Junichi Watanabe was in his thirties when he resigned, and it stands to reason that he already had a certain material foundation. But even when he went to Tokyo, he would still go to a local hospital every Wednesday to work as a doctor to support himself. He crumpled this experience and wrote it into the long ** "Shadowless Lamp". It can be said that it is made from local materials.
China Youth Daily interviewed him and asked him if it was by chance that he became a full-time writer. He said, yes, so to speak. If I hadn't tried to perform such an operation in the hospital at the time, if I had kept my suspicions in my stomach at the time, maybe I would have been a doctor for the rest of my life. It's hard to say.
It's not a bad thing to have a job that isn't related to a hobby. It's not that you will be able to realize your dreams if you leave your job, nor will you be able to realize your dreams while you are in the job.
Who would have thought that Liu Cixin, who won the Hugo Award for Best Feature ** Award at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention for "The Three-Body Problem", turned out to be an engineer in a power plant.
He works in a small town, the surrounding environment is relatively closed, more than an hour's drive from the city, and he lives a boring and rigid life. He has a wife and children, and he usually does housework and sends his children to school. He's an ordinary person who can't be more ordinary. However, he has a penchant for science fiction. He said that life is dull, but there is infinite excitement in science fiction.
It is said that Liu Cixin loves writing science fiction so much, so he should quit immediately and write full-time. But he didn't. He still attends his class, spending the rest of his time writing and spending time with his family. That's the real winner in life.
Liu Cixin's story tells us that whether you write well or not has nothing to do with whether you are full-time.
If you are strong and still have a job to provide food and clothing, how can you gamble on an uncertain future on impulse if you are weak?
I saw an anonymous question on social **: Should I write full-time or part-time?What should I do if I can't write it?
Here's an anonymous answer that I think is a very good point. "In order to write something, I took a book, but I didn't sign up. Parents wash their faces with tears all day long. You're an adult and can decide your own path, but in their eyes, the path you're walking is full of thorns, and they care how many injuries you get along the way. ”
Before the age of 18, we were held up by our parents to see the wider world, and it was they who fulfilled everything for us. Now that we are finally able to be self-reliant, please stop stepping on the shoulders of your parents to achieve your dreams.
I didn't want to lose my job for my little dream and worry my elderly parents.
Gao Xiaosong said that life is not only about what is in front of you, but also about poetry and distance.
Yes, we need poetry and distance, that is the expectation that everyone hides in the bottom of their hearts.
But before we reach the distance, we have to be reconciled.
We need to earn wealth with our own hands, so that we can go far.