I don’t know. I was thinking for selling furs and meat but there’s no money in that anymore either. It’s just, hunting seems to be one of the few things I “can do”
My son just turned 7, and I coach him on the same things with the same mantras I have mentored dozens of aspiring engineering students, graduates, and professionals, and hundreds of young athletes in my (short but satisfying) career - and it’s these two recurring mantras which come to mind when I read this post:
First: I have had to reprogram a lot of kids who have been told to “find something you love doing, then get paid to do it” and help them realize, even when you find something you love doing, it’s not ALWAYS “
fun” when you’re doing it for “
work.”. Anything “
fun” you can do, which is always fun, are things which COST you when you do them. “Work,” on the other hand, is something you wouldn’t otherwise do, either at all or as often, but for the compensation. If
work were always
fun, we wouldn’t call it “
work,” we’d call it “
fun,” and we’d have to pay for the privilege of doing it, instead of being paid. So while I fully support the idea of enjoying what you do, at a deep, personal and passionate level, recognize it won’t always be “
fun.”
Second, if you study successful people and success-mindset training and psychology, you’ll observe a pattern: There are three types of statements you should NEVER make if you want to be successful:
I can’t... (refusal to try)
I won’t... (refusal to act)
I don’t want to... (refusal to flex)
If you say you CAN hunt, then based on the physical, mental, and educational requirements for “hunting,” you are absolutely incorrect to say you “can’t” do a hundred other jobs which require the same attributes as hunting.
But what you really appear to be saying is “
I don’t want to do anything except for something I find to be
fun,” such it’s really not an aptitude issue, but rather an attitude issue.