What is the best thing that I love about my work? It has to be meeting and working with amazing men and women, and witnessing the mindblowing transformations they undergo in such a short space of time. What is my idea of perfect happiness? That’s a tough one! Perfect happiness would be feeling content in every area…
Passion Never Retires for Adriana Soares
I’m a multidisciplinary artist in the fields of creative photography, a painter whose works are permanently exposed in different museums. I currently published four books of poesy and biographical tales and my fifth volume is soon publishing. What is the best thing that I love about my work? Create, being moved, feeling alive. What is…
Passion Never Retires for Michelle Paisley Reed
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is that it doesn’t feel like “work” at all—it feels like PLAY! When I channel the inspiration for my books, I feel as if I go to an alternate dimension where the wisdom is directly downloaded. When I speak,…
Passion Never Retires for Silvia Kratzer
What is the best thing that I love about my work?I discovered that being in business for yourself is the best self-development tool When I was growing up I had absorbed the idea that private life and career were very separate. It was immensely liberating to discover that creating your career is creating your best…
Passion Never Retires for Tricia O Connor
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Working with amazing and I love that it can keep evolving and growing with me What is my idea of perfect happiness? Colorful stillness What is my greatest fear? Swimming in deep water What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? I…
Passion Never Retires for Elena Taylor
What is the best thing you love about your work? I love that I get a chance to connect with moms around the world, find a common ground, learn about different cultures, and motivate moms to live their dreams while being a mom. I love the fact that I can explore foods, hobbies, services and bring…
Passion Never Retires for Anastasia Borta
The best thing I love about my work is seeing the transformation, the growth, the ‘aha moments’ and the healings that the people get when we work together. I also love that my work is always evolving and I’m transforming, growing and evolving along with it. My idea of perfect happiness is going to bed…
Passion Never Retires for Patricia Ariel
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the freedom to tell my own stories, to send messages through images and make connections with other human beings, and through those connections, stir up something inside them. Artists have great power. We manipulate symbols, archetypes in the collective and personal unconscious….
Passion Never Retires for Mary Strand
Best thing I love about my work: I get to put my characters in tough situations and give them a happy ending. In my YA novels, I get to be a teenager again … but many people would say I never stopped! My idea of perfect happiness: A warm, sunny day in Paris listening to…
Passion Never Retires for Anna Wallentin de Souza
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What i love the most about my work is that it is creative, deals with colors, shapes and form. I get to communicate with people and feelings in my work as a decorator, stylist, presenter and also sales advisor. I feel happy going to work…
Passion Never Retires for Christine Vereecken
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to channel my endless imagination in my works, being creative for me is like breathing, I know no other way of living. Plus, when your art touches people, makes them happy, makes them smile and dream it is such a pleasure to…
Passion Never Retires for Maria Letizia Cassata
My great dream is to promote Arts. After having travelled and lived between France, Milan and Rome I have made the choice to live and come back to my native town which is Palermo. This town which recently has been declared Italian capital of culture for 2018, is in a real magic moment the perfect…
Passion Never Retires for Anna Rita Barbieri
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Il mio è un lavoro creativo , libera completamente la mente da ogni altro pensiero e porta in un’ altra dimensione fatta di luce , colori e storie da raccontare . Questo concetto è sintetizzato nei titoli delle mie mostre personali “ Ritratti di Vita…
Passion Never Retires for Jérémi Dubroca
The thing that I love the most about my work is using my imagination to be someone else and trying to understand this new character. My idea of perfect happiness is when you’re at peace with yourself, doing what you love, being with the people you love. It’s all about love. My greatest fear is…
Passion Never Retires for Elaine Weeks
Best thing about my work: I can do it at home… I can do it anywhere. As long as I have a computer and the time to write, I’m all set. I can work late if I want to. I can sleep in if I want to. And I love not having a “boss” per…
Passion Never Retires for Marta Storno
What is the best thing about my work? The best thing about my work is that I can be myself. No mask, no pretending and I am my own boss. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Life with no boundaries, doing what I love surrounded by my friends and family. What is my greatest fear? Losing people…
Passion Never Retires for Alice Lussiana Parente
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The communication aspect. The fact that I have the privilege to share incredible stories to an audience. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Waking up in the morning feeling curious, hungry for life, full of love to give to others. What is my greatest…
Passion Never Retires for Gabriele Manca
I’m Gabriele Manca, Italian Artist based in Rotterdam, Nederlands. I decided to change my life ten years ago, dropping my studying Building Construction Engineer in favor of something that could allow me to express myself with more freedom. This is how Circus enter I my Life. Besides my many artistic interests (from painting to sculpting and…
Passion Never Retires for Marie Ducaté
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love painting, to think Art with painting, playing with colors, to try to find the gesture in adequation with the shape, the story, the poetry. What is my idea of perfect happiness? To do my Art with a good sense of the present, in a…
Passion Never Retires for Caroline Drogo
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to create stories through my paintings and illustrations. To be able to show my vision of the world in one picture. And also the fact that I am free, I can choose my projects and work whenever and wherever I want. What…
Passion Never Retires for Davide Bonazzi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The opportunity of drawing all day long, and being paid for that. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Spending time with the people I love, and working on exciting projects. What is my greatest fear? Being forced by necessity to do things that…
Passion Never Retires for Giovanna Bittante
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Surely creativity. The power to give space to art without limits and that the limits are given by the materials Cuál es la cosa que prefiero de mi trabajo? Seguramente la creatividad. El poder dar espacio al arte sin límites y que los límites sean dados por…
Passion Never Retires for Francois Girard
I’m a actor, a stuntman, a scriptwriter and a director, native of Loire-Atlantique. I leave settling down on Paris to follow during 3 years the school of dramatic art in the Florent’s school. Last year I stage my own play and realize a short movie, in which I play. I become aware of my real passion for…
Passion Never Retires for Julie Henderson
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about being a top online prospecting coach and skilled sales mentor is I teach entrepreneurs how to create meaningful conversations that lead to real connections and qualified prospects, to grow a profitable business. The sad fact is… within 24 months…
Passion Never Retires for Erika Couto
What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love most about being a brand and business strategist is getting to connect with other millennials all over the world who are trying to change how work is done and what it means to be an influencer. I am constantly inspired. What…
Passion Never Retires for Meghan Shupp
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love that I can help teach individuals to take back control of their innate ability to heal their bodies from within, using energy and crystal healing. By learning and implementing ancient energy healing techniques, one can bring more peace and joy into their lives…
Passion Never Retires for Kim O’Hara
What is the best thing I love about my work? My work is fascinating. I witness the emergence of new people in my clients through their weekly writing. They are fulfilling a dream to write a book, and at the same time digging deeper into a new perspective on the stories of their life. I lead…
Passion Never Retires for Robert Dugoni
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love coming up with a new character and watching that character grow over the course of a novel or a series. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Having my wife and kids all home enjoying each other’s company. What is my greatest…
Passion Never Retires for Frances Moeller
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom to express myself, my beliefs, and my journey. Knowing this creative passion has always been in me since I was a child and will continue my whole life. The connection and ability that art has to open up people’s minds and bring…
Passion Never Retires for Jeane Seah
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I sculpt, paint, make jewellery, photograph, write, cook and run a Bed and Breakfast and event centre in a chateau. It is never boring because I never repeat! Even if I cook, I never follow a recipe because somehow my philosophy would be to always…
Passion Never Retires for Tammy Loftis
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I wear a lot of different hats but they ALL involve being able to Help People! Knowing that I helped them change their life for the better whether is with Life Coaching, health, wellness, personal training or Spartan Races! I inspired and/or motivated them…
Passion Never Retires for Laddy Aradhya
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love creating collective moments of joy, making people happy and showing they can be whatever they want to be if they are willing to. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Being in the beach, after a workout, knowing that the work is…
Passion Never Retires for Joan Wilking
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m a Gemini, the twins. For years I worked at only one thing. I was an ad agency creative director on the design side. In the late 1990’s I started to write as an avocation and fell in love with it. Eventually I left my…
Passion Never Retires for Leora Skolkin-Smith
What is the best thing that I love about my work? the chance to have my own voice and vision. The chance to have solid, solitary time to pull together the fragments of my rather fragmented personal life and make one essential story out them which would mean finding the truth that binds all those confusing…
Passion Never Retires for Joost de Jonge
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love how the experience of looking at the painting and the action of painting elavates me to a state of detachment. How the squashy paint slowly freezes over time. How the colors vibrate and keep on living their life long after I looked…
Passion Never Retires for Lindy Michaels
What’s the best thing I love about my work? So many jobs, so little time. As a writer, a comedy writer, for the most part, I do love putting my funny sensibilities into my characters, as I let them live in the plots I’ve come up with. As a script/book analyst, I love helping writers…
Passion Never Retires for Sophie Charlotte
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Allowing my clients to go beyond self-doubt, unlock their super powers within and dare go for what sets their soul on fire. I believe that when everybody did what they were meant to do, this world would be a better place. Contributing to a better…
Passion Never Retires with Manouk van der Meulen
What is my biggest passion? My biggest passion is creativity, and to create value for myself and others. What is my idea of ultimate happiness? The ultimate happiness for me is when something falls into place, something I have worked for or dreamed about, which manifests itself. What is my biggest fear? My biggest fear…
Passion Never Retires for Katinka Durkstra
What is the best thing i love about my work? The freedom of water, art, culinary and love in the most broad definition of the word.Combined in one word, creating. All goes hand in hand, as an artist, businesswoman and mother. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Keeping my freedom of independent creatorg of all, without…
Passion Never Retires with Marilyn Horowitz
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing. The intellectual intimacy of working one on one with other writers and the many moments of spontaneous creation. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Being fully present in whatever moment I am in, and as an added bonus dancing a really good tango on…
Passion Never Retires with Mark David Gerson
What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me, the best thing about being a writer, the thing I love most, is the opportunity to discover worlds beyond my conscious imagining and to be able to take those imagined worlds and translate them into words on a page. What is my…
Passion Never Retires for Geert van Opstal
What is my greatest passion? Making classical guitars of the highest level of sound, playability and beauty; instruments that will inspire their players for many years. What is my idea of perfect happiness? The awareness of being alive! A rich social environment to share the sweet and the bitter with, safety, freedom of speech and…
Passion Never Retires for Luisa Marotta
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love creating meaningful connections, through people or through numbers and data. I love working in the innovation field because I like the idea that I’m contributing to build a simpler future for everyone, by leveraging on knowledge and information. What is my idea…
Passion Never Retires for Vivian Mota
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have so much fun doing what I do. It’s a way to keep my inner child alive. It’s always good even if the work is hard or heavy. I can’t see myself doing anything different. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Having…
Passion Never Retires for Brad Morris
What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a child I was always fascinated with creating lavish stories and entertaining others. I have also been very friendly and supportive of others. My mother has even stated I wear my heart on my sleeve which is why it is always so easily…
Passion Never Retires for Tere Miguel
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I work as a commercial director in an editorial company, and what I love the most is the possibility of meeting people every day. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Being with my husband and three kids. What is my greatest fear? Not having…
Passion Never Retires for Anne Bosch-van der Graaf
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To work with people like myself and meet interesting others doing their jobs with passion around modeling work. What is my idea of perfect happiness? To do what you love to do and to do it with passion. What is my greatest fear? I…
Passion Never Retires for Tom Winton
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love that my books have touched reader’s hearts all over the world. And it doesn’t hurt that I can work whenever I want, as long as my muse isn’t AWOL. What is my idea of perfect happiness? I don’t believe that happiness or…
Passion Never Retires for Lee Kostrinsky
What is the best thing that I love about my work? I remain free as I can of a crushing system and explore my own creativity and it’s relationship to a world where one has to thrive in the real world as well . Exploring and fucking with the paradox of the difficulty between working…
Passion Never Retires for Pascal Cubb
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Human relations is what I love in my work. Also my Freedom & my Independence. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Sundown on the sea with people I love, family , friends… With a drink of wine! Peaceful & Serenity. What is my…
Passion Never Retires for Marjorie Salvaterra
What is the best thing that I love about my work? FOR ME, EVERYTHING! I love coming up with the ideas, though I make myself crazy along the way. I love when I can take an idea from my head to the camera to print and it actually comes out the way I envisioned. And I…
Passion Never Retires for Filomena Croce
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is making people happy. Seeing their smile, seeing them singing with me, dancing, having fun, making them feel emotions. It is letting them escape from the reality and taking them with me to places they have…
Passion Never Retires for Pierpaolo Perretta
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Freedom. This is the most important thing in my life and also in my work. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Me and my family, this is already happiness Quando sono con la mia famiglia, questa è già felicità. What is my greatest…
Passion Never Retires for Mario delli Bovi
What is the best thing that I love about my work? To have the opportunity to break walls, helping people to interact with traditional main stream. Everyday is a discover of something different and that is really great to me! What is my idea of perfect happiness? Let other people feel good because of what…
Passion Never Retires for Francesca Fini
What is the best thing that I love about my work? My job is daily experimentation. The different projects I work on are always different, always very innovative and always contain a new challenge. I rarely replicate a formula. Generally when I found a particular creative solution to the eternal dilemma that inspires all my artistic…
Passion Never Retires for Kerstin Paillard
The best thing that I love about my work is the freedom. I am a painter and I decide when and where I want to work. I have no boss, no schedule. As I am exhibiting in many different places, I also travel a lot. My idea of perfect happiness : love, painting, a glass…
Passion Never Retires for Randi Matushevitz
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The surprise of what it will look like in the end. I work intuitively guided by knowledge, experience, purpose and formal issues. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Tricky question that has a two-fold answer. 1.To find more joy and meaningful experiences…
Passion Never Retires for Sue Kreitzman
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The spontaneity, the colour, the passion, the mysterious spirituality, the glorious female power of it. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Of course the state of the world precludes perfect happiness, but self medication helps achieve it for awhile. My shield (self…
Passion Never Retires for Maria Strova
What is the best thing that I love about my work? Seeing women open up to dance and life through the expression of their bodies. Saying yes to what life has to offer, good and bad. Becoming an “Anti-odalisque” which is the name of the dance program and is about following your heart and muse, expressing…
Passion Never Retires for Diane Goldie
What is the best thing I love about my work? By far and away the best thing about my work is seeing the response from clients when they receive their garment, seeing their faces as they wrap themselves in a garment that tells their own story. It is pure emotion, it is intimate, it is…
Passion Never Retires for Emma Sawko
What is the best thing that I love about my work? The creativity. I love to brainstorm on a concept and see it taking life. I love the energy there is around brand creation, work with the teams of architects, designers, the Chefs… What is my idea of perfect happiness? This is hard to answer, and quite…
Passion Never Retires for Simone Filippini
What is my story about Passion Never Retires? It’s exactly what I feel is the most important thing in life and in my work as well: passion! Without passion, life is colorless, bleak, uninteresting. What is the best thing that I love about my work? I have been going to all my different jobs for the…
Testdrive your Dreamjob
In TESTDRIVE YOUR DREAMJOB, you’ll discover how you can identify, explore and experience your dream job, and how or if you want to pursue it. Peter de Kuster, founder of Passion Never Retires, offers professional, personal and financial perspectives on how to transition into a new career and turn your dream job into a reality…
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Passion Never Retired for Klaus Teuber, inventor of the famous game “Catan” “When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants,…