Not entirely like a big lottery winner recommending you buy tickets.
Career advice - bump for later....
LOL. My Dad was a laborer at a steel mill, a job he took after getting out of the Navy - which he joined at 17 so he could get 3 meals a day and take some burden off his mother. When the mill closed in 1980, he took a job as a 50+ year-old stocking grocery shelves. I don't think he ever made more than 20K a year
Hearing him say "Follow your passion" to us kids would have been even stranger than if he had suddenly started speaking Swahili to us.
I like Mike Rowe’s advice: Don’t follow your passion, follow your opportunities.
Mike Rowe, on Prageru, five minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVEuPmVAb8o
If you do not have basic business acumen and skills, following your passion will likely bankrupt yourself.
I agree that following your passion is OK advice. But your “passion” can become a nightmare if spend 80 hours a week doing it.
Billionaires that are self made are usually a lot smarter than the average bear. They have an unnatural drive for success. And they see opportunities where others don’t.
Having built my own business from the ground up, I have to laugh at all of the people that “wanted to do it”, but when they discovered how much actual work it was…they fell by the wayside.
What drove me away from it was the changing technology and the lack of business acumen of my clients. They wanted stuff right now, and did not want to pay the price to get that. I called it a day and never looked back.
Is it the passion of any of the ultra-rich to advance the Gospel of Christ?
I guess the OTHER OPTION is to do something that you hate.
Not sure if that’s such a good idea either.
That’s like the rich twits who say, “Money isn’t important to me”.
So he tried to follow his passion, and it didn’t work out for him.
Now he says that ‘Follow your passion’ is advice that only works for people who are already rich.
He doesn’t reflect that his own advice is something that people who tried to ‘follow their passion’ and failed give.
Unless you are really hungry, passion does not get you far.
“decided that he’d be better suited for entrepreneurship than as an employee at a big company. In 1992, he co-founded …”
So he followed his passion, became an entrepreneur rather than keeping the secure pay check.
Galloway is a liberal dummy. His advice for young men is terrible.
Instead of blindly following their passion, individuals should focus on developing valuable skills, prioritizing financial stability, and embracing hard work and continuous learning to achieve success and build wealth
If he went 1 offer per 30 applications, that’s very good by my standards.
And from another perspective, without passion, a person will always fall short of their own potential — no matter their talent.
Listener: (to himself) "My passion is robbing billionaires."
It’s always rubbed me the wrong way when a filthy rich person without a care in the world tells young people something like “the most important thing is to follow your passion”.
Most of those young people’s passions may not be enough to even pay the bills, let alone enable them to reach a comfortable financial place in life.
Sometimes, what you are good at can become your passion. More often than not, success brings changes in your job function that takes you into areas you don't enjoy as much as what brought you success. This is why many people who start up successful companies, have a hard time continuing to lead those companies to broader success.