View the talk on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBXKb0pAOSI This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It is difficult to maintain hobbies when so much of our life is consumed by work. But can these hobbies turn into something more?

1. Don’t Quit Your Day Job…Yet
Stephen Levin
TEDxTJHSST 2014

2. Side projects can turn
into huge companies!

3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/8136496@N05/
School is a great time to start

4. It’s not all about the money

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/techne/82509634/
You can do good for
your community

6. You can try new things

7. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Our_%28Almost_Traditional%29_Thanksgiving_Dinner.jpg
But don’t forget about
the main course!

8. It might not be pretty,
but eventually you
have to dive in!

9. It’s ok to fail…

10. You’ll hit the next one

11. Stephen Levin
@smlevin11
Speek.com/slevin
Stephen.levin@speek.com