ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the bread and butter issue of getting paid to do devotee work. It describes the interweave of work and leisure in everyday life, both in general terms and in terms unique to the devotee. Applied to occupational devotion, economic situation can be conceptualized as arrayed along a scale of increasing wealth that runs from poverty to opulence. Devotees living in or near poverty are forced by their economic circumstances to seek money outside their core activity. Acquisitive devotees turn up in the world of small business. Principled-acquisitive devotees not only hope to find great financial success doing fulfilling work, they also manage to achieve exactly that. The chapter explores the work and leisure lifestyles of occupational devotees and the interweaving of these two. With remarks like those just made about the uncontrollability of serious leisure and devotee work, one might wonder if observations on the leisure lifestyle of the latter are, at bottom, little more than academic.
