The next best thing

The next best thing to following your dreams, is making compromises you can live with. I could be talking about my dream of creating large edifices in paper clay - then making do with a combination of this and regular clay, or carrying on with what I love anyhow, all kinds of earthenware clay. But I am not.
I am looking for the compromise between being a creative artist who wakes up in the morning to the joy of teaching and or creating a new collection, and looking for a job to earn a feasible living , which will not need complete dedication of all of my time. If I could do that, it would be the next best thing, and I would be fine.

However, and there was an obvious" but " here, I still haven't found this next best thing. After two and a half months I am still unemployed. Who would have thought that a 58 year old with a clear idea of the perfect part time job ( well paid, interesting , flexible , very little filing, working for a sweetheart of a boss), would not find this all waiting around the corner ?
What happened to The Secret? Here I am believing i will find the perfect job, the kind I want ; where is the law of attraction sending it? Could there be someone out there who wants it more than I do? Or perhaps dare I doubt its existence?
Well, if any of you happen to know of a post in translating, merchandising, correspondence, or whatever can be done freelance or part time, LET ME KNOW .

I in the meantime will continue trying to follow my dream while waiting for the next best thing.