Courtesy of Penguin Random House. We have both taken on jobs that were purely pay-the-bills gigs at times when our lives demanded we do so. We have spent years working in places that were good enough, jobs that might allow us enough flexibility to write on the side, or where writing was the job, just not the kind of writing we’d be doing in a perfect world, or bringing the same skills we’d honed in writing to other, more lucrative careers. We knew that these early jobs would pay the bills or get us to the next jobs, and those would pay the billseven if they might not have been our dream jobs. We prioritized money and stability and figured the passion part would work itself. And, as we write these words, it. Our friends fell into two groups when it came to their feelings about stability, independence, and money. Where do something you love or make money you fall? Do you see earning money as the path to a stable life, or are there other elements that feel more important than f...