Are you doing (for work) what you most love to do?

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I am- finally, and its the best decision I ever made. I was working two jobs. I've mentioned in other posts (if anyone's forgotten, brush up because I'll be giving a pop quiz later in the week) that I was working days as an esthetician and week end nights reading tarot cards in a lovely shop in another town. In both cases I would only be paid for specific services although I would be present for specific hours, of course. I like doing facials and take a real interest in skin care and all that but every hair salon on the planet is adding facials performed by cosmetologists instaead of estheticians ( who are specifically and only trained in skin) so the results are - eh! and facials are losing popularity in small towns like this. Meanwhile, the salon people were getting nastier and nastier as business slacked off- I was ending my eight hour shift feeling demoralized and weary and broke. The folks at the tarot shop who weren't charging me a dime to read there said my being there helped a bit to bring in business- were so nice to be around, I felt nurtured just going there.And night after night I would have 4 to 6 readings- which I truly love doing.They said I could be there every night, day times too if I liked. Finally I quit the salon and have felt nothing but sweet relief. I make as much in two or three nights as I did in my best weeks at the salon. When summer ends and the tourists all go home, I won't have much to do, so I decided to go online with it. A woman I read for told me she was a reader too and that I could go on the website she's on. I did- ta-da.So I made up cards to give my clients and now they can contact me during the winter, online. Now I'm setting up all the details of a small business- got a tax ID, and am developing products to help with rituals and meditation and making a website of my own featuring readings some of the products I'm developing and most of all a covenstead, so that solitaries like me can come together on Sabbats for an online circle. this has all been in the space of the last week and a half. I am so at peace now, so happy. Money is not important enough to go through the crap so many of us endure- when doing what you love stirs you to inspired activity - its all joy. I want to know- are you doing work you love, or doing work in order to support doing what you love?