Classic advice – follow your passion. Here are the problems with that –
1) Young people have no idea what their passion is. They haven’t tried stuff yet.
2) Your passion may be unmarketable. Some things are best left as hobbies.
3) If you get a job doing what you love, it does not mean you will love the job and the circumstances you do it in.
4) If you’ll be a sole proprietor (self-employed) there is still the business side to deal with.
5) Being an entrepreneur and running a business has little to do with loving what the service or product is. You won’t likely be doing “IT” anymore when you try to build a business that does “IT”.
Do you need to like what you do? Yes. But if you’re a business owner, you need to love leadership and team building and systems and training (because that is what you’ll be doing), not so much the craft or product.
Great reminder, Larry!
Had I understood 3 and 4, number 5 would be easy ! That’s why I’m in SOE
Your advice is much better advice than the “classic advice”. Thank you for pointing out the issues with following your passion! Definitely a new way of looking at it!
Mike Rowe has a pretty good video on this.
Going deep Larry!
my opinion
Passion is best for hobbies – yes?
Work with your hands and you will always be free!
Trade those skills you have, and trade them for money.
Not to much for motivating others that can’t motivate themselves. That sounds like to much energy on my part. .