How To Turn Your Passion Into A Profession

Here’s how to turn your passion into a profession:

Determine the logical extension of the position you have already.

Ask yourself what’s missing in your existing job.

Identify a current business problem.

Apply your skills to it.

Pitch your proposed position to management.

Demonstrate that it has a solid return on investment.

Try to make it a low-risk, high-reward idea.

Clearly articulate the value for the proposed position, both to the organization and to you.

Do the necessary research.

Research and share data to support your proposed position request.

Outline your plans to make it happen.

Develop a well-thought-out strategy.

Delineate execution, responsibilities, and value-added deliverables as well as a reasonable schedule & backup plan.

Be clear and straightforward in proposing the position.

Show you are the perfect person for the position.

Prove its value.

Show how the proposed position can boost growth or retention.

Show your employer that you’re ready for the proposed position.

Find a competitor with a similar position.

If there is an area in your existing organization that needs significant improvement, see if that is a new job you can invent and step into.

Calculate the value proposition of the job you are inventing and present it to your management team.

Optimize your LinkedIn profile.

Customize to make it better reflect your passions, goals, dreams and skills.

Write ebooks and blogs.

Develop online courses.

Secure consulting or freelancing assignments.

Secure speaking engagements.

Offer workshops or seminars.

Find your bliss and do what you love.

Just do it!

Seek out passionate entrepreneurs.

Associate with people who are pioneers and visionaries that get things done.

Develop your side hustles and create multiple streams of income.

Consider the unconsidered.

Attempt new things.

Dig deeper into fields and ideas and information that interests you.

Define your ideal job---and develop it.

Tap into the wisdom and opportunities within your network.

Share your ideas for new jobs to invent with friends.

Let your network know you’d like to find out more about whatever new job you’re interested in creating.

Do lots of favors and become highly valuable.

Connect with lots of persons both online and offline.

Be authentic and share your interests with them.

Start doing all this before you’re ready to make a change.

Pay attention to trends in the world around you.

Embrace change and uncertainty.

Adapt, seek, and allow opportunities to unfold.

Create rituals.

Use visualization and meditation and manifestation.

Embrace risk taking.

Acting without certainty of outcome.

Follow your intuition.

Go against the crowd

Manage your fears.

Convert your mistakes into opportunities for learning.

Collaborate.

Have discipline.

Act consistently whether or not you feel motivated.

Work only upon what you are passionate and excited about.

Teach other people to do what you love.

Pursue your passion.

Follow your bliss.

Consider what you truly love doing

Ponder what you are passionate about.

Let your passion become your dream job.

Build an audience

Build diverse income streams.

Give away free articles yet charge for ebooks or other digital products.

Create a subscription or membership service featuring powerful content.

Create online courses.

Sell advertisements or run advertisements from advertisement networks.

Do consulting or freelancing.

Do speaking engagements or training seminars.

Sell other people’s products or services as an affiliate and get commissions.

Create a detailed job description and plan.

Pitch the idea to management.

Refine your idea and present it to decision makers. 

To invent your own job, research firms you’d like to work for and whether or not they have a need for your skills.

Do that research and create a plan.

Determine how you’ll fill each prospective employer’s gap.

 Carefully research the strengths and weaknesses of each firm and decide if your skills are a match.

Determine how prospective employers can capitalize on your talent.

Determine exactly how each prospective employer shall benefit from your skills and experience.

Be able to concisely explain to prospective employers how your expertise will help them reach their goals through creating the position you proposed.

Connect with the right persons.

Perfect your pitch!

`    Do careful research and planning to be able to determine how your skills provide prospective employers with what they need.

Be patient.

Find Your Dream team.

Recruit Your Tribe.

 Discover your passion---the thing you enjoy most and at which you are naturally wired to excel.

Determine the demand for it.

Do your homework and research.

Make a career plan encompassing it.

Become qualified.

Recognize all your passions.

Listen to your inner voice.

Follow your dreams.

Stay flexible.

Hire a career expert to advise, guide and inspire you.

Give it some time.

Learn from your mistakes and failures

Stand up each time that you fall.

Never give up.

P.S. Anything else YOU would add?

The author, Dr. John B. Charnay, CEO of Charnay and Associates in Greater Los Angeles, is a leading career advancement, career development, and career management expert. He is also a top job search and career transition advisor. He has helped hundreds get the raises, promotions or jobs of their dreams! He has extensive experience teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels at leading universities throughout the Greater Los Angeles area, including USC, UCLA, CSUN, FIDM, Woodbury and Pepperdine. Additionally, he is a top fundraising, public relations and social media advisor. To meet him and ask for his support, invite him to be LinkedIn (email in profile) and contact him today!