Posted on 06/18/2005 7:12:20 AM PDT by FreeKeys
That was a very good speech.
Maybe it's just me....I thought it was trite, bromidic, and middling.
I agree, very inspirational but it is pc..You've got to do what you Love? This is the lie that we have been teaching our children..the reality is that you must pay the bills..it's very expensive to live in the U.S.A. today..We should teach our kids to make yourself marketable, learn a trade or a choose a vocation that is in demand, a small percentage may end up doing something they love. The rest they can do what they love as a hobby.We should teach reality not pipe dreams..There is a need for nurses engineers, plumbers all very hard jobs,that require years of training...but the kids won't go into them because they're wasting time looking for a job that they LOVE..by the time they realize that most jobs are work and nobody loves work it's too late..they're stuck, bills and family ,no time for going back into training..
Even rats can be right once in a while.
I have a lovely first edition in a box ready for the dump. Should I keep it?
I agree. Direct to the point, relieving of distress, and balanced.
Read: Don't listen to those around you - especially the ones who might actually have some wisdom and experience on them.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
This is what passes for deep thinking in our age.
Read: Whatever you do, ditch God and any faith tradition.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Read: It's all about you.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Read: If it feels good, do it.
Everything else is secondary.
Read: You're number one.
Oh well, I guess this is what passes for deep thinking in our age.....
I spent many years in the publishing industry where Macs were the standard platform. I had always wondered how it came to be that Macs so easily adapted to expert typography -- never dreaming it came from calligraphy!
We read our Whole Earth Catalog cover to cover, the original one. Subsequent issues not. There is a lot of fascinating stuff in there. For some reason everybody I knew had also read the thing in detail. It seemed like everybody was expected to know what was in there and to know it.
It's an odd publication, isn't it? Survivalist gear, food preservation, home building, bulk foods, growing your own -- all in the day before big box stores and computers.
Having a cynical morning, Annie?
Seemed like a lot of good non-political advice and a nice personal story to share at a commencement. I've heard too many of the other kind. Whether you like his politics or not, you should at least be open-minded enough to see Jobs is a man of some achievement and vision who might have something to say worth hearing. Geez.
Two different views of advice here. One is sef-centered and designed to get a high-paying job to pay high cost of living. The other, criticized by some as selfish, resulted in the creation of 40,000 high-paying jobs for others. You pay your money and take your choice.
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Thoreau”
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -- RWE
As for the rest, it's all humanistic pap....but I understand the worldview that embraces such lightweight tripe that never rises to the level of wisdom. But alas, it is a generation raised on Jonathan Seagull and Oprah.....
It's very simple. Some people get to do what they want and some people do what they have to. Jobs was addressing the first type.
I couldn't disagree with you more! I have lived a life of constantly struggling for money. It has cost me more than I could ever say. All the attempts were at work that was miserable for me. What I truly wanted to do all that time was to write and arrange music for choirs and orchestras. However, I failed to put in place the opportunities to follow that path and have regretted that all these many years. I would give anything to have done what was right and to have been happy during my years. Happy and poor beats miserable and rich any day.
You hit the nail on the head. My first degree was in political science because I didnt know what I wanted to do and I went to college because all my friends did. After serving in the Marine Corps I went back to school and got a BS in accounting and an MBA in finance. Do I love my job? Hell no, but it pays the bills and allows me to pursue my passions--high performance autos and guns.
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