My Day Job Versus My Passion

I always thought professional basketball players have the best jobs because they do what they love and they get paid for doing it. Wasn't it Confucius who said: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."? But not everyone is endowed with athleticism, height and talent to be a professional basketball player. Most of us have to work day jobs instead of doing something that we really really love. Don't get me wrong I love and value my present job (it's my lifeblood) but if I were to choose, I would also want to be a professional musician or a creative writer or script writer.

Being a musician. Playing guitar has always been my passion. What I love about playing guitar is composing melody over chord patterns. I think of it as a puzzle. I just try out different notes and scales and find out by trial and error which fit and sound good over certain chords. Yehey! Eureka! when everything is spot on. It gives me great joy when I've written a melody line.

Being a writer. I've always believed that I have a knack for writing. That is, creative writing. Sentence construction was not my strong suit when I was still studying. I'm more interested in metaphors, similes and other figures of speech. I like to "express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than simply convey information" using language. Ginang Mandigma, who is my Filipino teacher at The University of Manila and who is a "Noranian", is an inspiration to me. As an assignment, she would ask her students to make clippings of prose and poetry found in the Liwayway Magazine. The students must submit their clippings by the end of the term in order to pass her course, forcing them to be exposed to Filipino.

Another thing I wish I could be is to be a script writer for movies or komiks. I just read Mike Relon Makiling’s blog (http://direkmikerelonmakiling.blogspot.co.nz/2008/03/how-i-entered-movies.html) and it made me want to be a script writer for komiks where he started. How cool would it be to be sitting behind a desk, pounding away on a vintage typewriter churning out scripts for illustrations drawn by masters ala Mars Ravelo, Pablo S. Gomez, or Mike Relon Makiling? How cool would it be if I could write funny dialogue for Tony Velasquez’s Kenkoy? That would be very cool. Very, very cool.



References:
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/100-blog-topics-i-hope-you-write/
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/creative-writing-101/
http://direkmikerelonmakiling.blogspot.co.nz/2008/03/how-i-entered-movies.html
http://pilipinokomiks.blogspot.co.nz/2005_10_01_archive.html