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Would you choose passion over a steady paycheck?

On Friday, we wrote about how hiring for jobs is up, but only in terms of temp jobs.

A whole other crop of people are saying to themselves, “Hey, if I can’t get a job doing what I love, I’m going to do just that, instead of wasting away and bouncing from temp job to temp job.”

With the unemployment rate apparently stuck at or near double digits, more people seem to be choosing a passion over a steady paycheck. Rather than waiting for companies to open up their payrolls, these people are taking matters into their own hands and defining their own jobs, going online to find each other, leverage each other’s capabilities and services, and learn faster by working together.

While this is a big risk, but these people realize that they’ll be far happier if they can find something they love doing and figure out creative ways to make a living from it. Focusing on work that offers greater meaning makes it easier to withstand the perils and roadblocks they will face as they leave the corporate fold.

Read the whole article over at Bloomberg BusinessWeek.