Follow Your Dream or Follow The Path?

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[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

[quote]mbdix wrote:

[quote]Aggv wrote:
thread jack

Does anyone else get irritated when meeting someone new(usually women) and 2nd thing they ask is “what do you do?”

i work like everyone else, how about asking “what do you like to do”. You’ll learn a lot more about someone with that question. < usually my response verbatim. [/quote]
Dude…bitches be trippin[/quote]

If you’re out socially and someone asks you what you do, look at them sincerely, pause a beat, and reply, “In case of what?”

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Ha. Nice

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[quote]B A S T A R D wrote:
If I could start over again I would go straight for the highest income possible so that I could use those funds to eventually not have to work.
Being honest I am not truly passionate about anything, hence I would:

  1. Complete degree in petroleum engineering.
  2. Obtain job on an oil rig/camp
  3. Have Ghey ButtSecks with all the sweaty/oily dudes on the rig.
  4. stay hard for many years.
  5. Invest in what I see fit to generate passive income.

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FIXED

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[quote]mbdix wrote:
Plan A. Follow your passion. If you can find your passion in life and able to follow it to a successful career in it? Then great! If it doesn’t work out?

Plan B. Have a passion for what you do. Create it somehow. For example:

Boss: “hey Bob I am going to need you to give me a TP60 report on that account you closed on”

You: “Gotcha” But, then here is the tricky part. You tell yourself. “you know what? I am going to give him the most badass, fucking awesome TP60 report his eyes have ever seen. Watch me make this TP60 report my bitch. You here that TP60 you’re going down! On paper. and into my bosses hand”

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yeaâ?¦.

then your boss doesn’t look at it for 5 weeks as it sits on his desk and then he comes to you at the end of the 5 weeks and throws the TP60 in your face and tells you that he didn’t even read it and asks for a TP70 which is your companies new standard report cause the TP60 is now OBSELETE and it has nothing to do with anything anymore and you’re an idiot for even writing a TP60 report cause it is obsolete.

So all that “passion” that you could drum up for the TP60 is not only wasted, you have learned to never have a “passion” again for anything that you do at your little dick company that no one is happy working for and everyone is miserable cause its a small company with no logic and everything goes wrong and its super inefficient and they have no money leading to some of the employees to walk around with holes in their shoes (no joke) cause they can’t afford new ones and they drive old shitty cars and you can’t understand why anyone stays there for an extended amount of time and you wonder what the fuck is wrong with the people who HAVE stayed there for an extended period of time and fuck i need a new job

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[quote]carbiduis wrote:
So all that “passion” that you could drum up for the TP60 is not only wasted[/quote]

So you derive meaning out of how others look at your work and you?

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[quote]magick wrote:

[quote]carbiduis wrote:
So all that “passion” that you could drum up for the TP60 is not only wasted[/quote]

So you derive meaning out of how others look at your work and you?

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You don’t?

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[quote]angry chicken wrote:

I’ve been wealthy and I’ve been broke (I’m currently doing pretty good). I am a lot happier when I’m not broke and struggling and worrying about paying my bills, feeding my kids or handling any emergency that life throws at me. Having enough money so that you don’t need to think about it brings a peace of mind like nothing else.
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This gentleman knoweth what he speaketh of…

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I think people just need to fucking work hard at something. Too much talk about bullshit like “I could do it, but I wouldn’t love it.” Stop being a pussy* and pay your fucking dues.

Yeah, if you suck at something you probably won’t love it at first. Here’s the thing though: just about everyone sucks at their first job. You might even suck at your second and third jobs for a little while before you get the hang of the new work. Eventually though, if you’re honestly going to work trying to earn your fucking paycheck every day instead of mailing it in like 90% of the people in the world, you’ll get damn good at what you’re doing. People will notice and respect/revere you for this. You will come to enjoy your work because of it.

*This is directed at people in general who think and talk this way, not specifically the OP or anyone else in the thread since I didn’t read it.

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[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

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Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?

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[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

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Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?
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Yet there are so many successful people who followed their passion, financial considerations be damned. Oh so many revolutionary people, and almost everyone who follows their passion is employed right?

Go to any small time music venue during the week, you’ll see dozens of wanna be rockstars playing to crowds of 10 just at the one venue, at the one city in this whole country.

Oddly enough, it’s graduation time from college. And almost everyone I know of that tried to get a job got one. Many of these people had a business degree (and TONS of people across the country get these). Many of these people are idiots (I know them, I know how much they party, how much they drink, how little effort they put into classes, how smart they really aren’t). These same idiots got jobs right after graduation, in many cases in locations across the country they really wanted to live.

So, if employment is so hard, why do these people have jobs? Their GPA’s sucked.

Also, you’re 17 I think. You really think the economy is going to be the exact same in 4-5 years when you finish college or an apprenticeship? And also, if you’re expecting a high paying job in any field early on you’re going to be upset.

Most of the people I see pursuing their dreams include living at home forever and barely scraping by while they work at a fast food place to support their passion. Usually music, cause for some reason if you have actual artistic talent you can find a good job somewhere, whereas for music there’s millions of people sounding roughly the same trying to get noticed.

I’m not saying screw anyone’s hopes and dreams, I’m just saying the odds are incredibly against you and using the 0.001% of people who made it big against the 99.999% that didn’t is a gamble. Unless your passion is to be an accountant or engineer, then congrats!

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[quote]staystrong wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

[/quote]

Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?
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Yet there are so many successful people who followed their passion, financial considerations be damned. Oh so many revolutionary people, and almost everyone who follows their passion is employed right?

Go to any small time music venue during the week, you’ll see dozens of wanna be rockstars playing to crowds of 10 just at the one venue, at the one city in this whole country.

Oddly enough, it’s graduation time from college. And almost everyone I know of that tried to get a job got one. Many of these people had a business degree (and TONS of people across the country get these). Many of these people are idiots (I know them, I know how much they party, how much they drink, how little effort they put into classes, how smart they really aren’t). These same idiots got jobs right after graduation, in many cases in locations across the country they really wanted to live.

So, if employment is so hard, why do these people have jobs? Their GPA’s sucked.

Also, you’re 17 I think. You really think the economy is going to be the exact same in 4-5 years when you finish college or an apprenticeship? And also, if you’re expecting a high paying job in any field early on you’re going to be upset.

Most of the people I see pursuing their dreams include living at home forever and barely scraping by while they work at a fast food place to support their passion. Usually music, cause for some reason if you have actual artistic talent you can find a good job somewhere, whereas for music there’s millions of people sounding roughly the same trying to get noticed.

I’m not saying screw anyone’s hopes and dreams, I’m just saying the odds are incredibly against you and using the 0.001% of people who made it big against the 99.999% that didn’t is a gamble. Unless your passion is to be an accountant or engineer, then congrats![/quote]

In no way am I saying you need to be a starving artist, and I’m 18 about to start college in the fall. I’m going into kinesiology. I love football and training more than anything. I’d like to try and work my way up the ladder and become a S&C coach eventually in the NFL. From there who knows… Hopefully start my own business. I just have a lot of things I’d like to do. I don’t think it’s going to be a linear journey. It’s going to be a lot of hard work, and ups and downs. I’m going to do everything I can to work with as many athletes as possible.

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[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

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Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?
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There are always plenty of jobs for people that bust their ass and have useful skills. You are 18; start busting your ass and learn a useful skill.

There is a huge shortage of talent in technical fields like engineering, and an even bigger shortage of skilled labor like electricians, pipe fitters, and welders. These shortages are only getting worse as more and more boomers retire. I’ve been working for almost a decade now, and I’ve only met 2 or 3 engineers that weren’t either my age, younger, or 25+ years older than me. There aren’t many 40-50 year old engineers running around right now. It’s like a whole generation was skipped.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I’ve been working for almost a decade now, and I’ve only met 2 or 3 engineers that weren’t either my age, younger, or 25+ years older than me. There aren’t many 40-50 year old engineers running around right now. It’s like a whole generation was skipped.[/quote]

Now that I think about it, I’ve seen the same in the software world. Not sure what’s up with that. There seems to be a gap of people between about age 42 and 52.

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My youngest brother is a little older than you. He’s always had a passion for movies (my fault lol) and wanted to study film in the university.

Before he chose his course i funded a 3 day shoot for him to film a short film from a pretty good script he had written. This meant auditioning actors, hiring cameras, lighting and sound equipment from a film studio and getting a small crew of mostly friends to help out with the shoot. I said i would just observe the process and help out when needed.

It took 3 hours to set up just the lighting for a 5 min scene. Actors would get pissed off because of the long set up and filming time for scenes not involving them. This was due to bad planning for the order of scenes to be shot.

Then directing the actors took more than 10 takes for each camera angle. Each of them had their own different version of each scene in their heads. Even when the actors performed the scene perfectly, shit would happen like one of them going out of frame. The professional cinematrographer we hired ended up doing most of the directing in the end.

By the 2nd day we were already way behind schedule. I had to step in and help with the filming. The entire script was rewritten to omit certain scenes and others were changed to maintain a coherent storyline. Dialogue was cut to a minimum.

By the 3rd day the script had completely changed we were doing multiple short single take scenes improvised without dialogue to fill in gaps from previously shot scenes. Basically we went from Sergio Leone to 90s era Wong Kar Wai in 3 days.

After all that we still had to fucking edit the damn thing. A 1min scene took 2 hours to edit.

My brother found out the hard way that being a film maker involves so much more than depicting one’s vision on the screen. You have to be a manager first, ensuring all parties involved are doing their jobs while coordinating them towards a collective vision. Then comes the budgeting, management of logistics, timelines etc. For a commercial film, distributors would need to be sourced and marketing the film requires a seperate approach altogether.

So he decided to take up a management degree instead with minor courses in film. Film making in his future exists as an option among many others.

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[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

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Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?
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I was just being darkly humorous. SN is spot on though.

I’ve always worked in labor trades and generally do really like it. It doesn’t matter what you do though, if you want to be good at it you have to push yourself, and if you want to be great at it you will have to have a passion and drive to develop a level of skill or accomplishment that most people don’t.

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How bout do what you love, then you really cannot go wrong with it.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

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Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?
[/quote]

There are always plenty of jobs for people that bust their ass and have useful skills. You are 18; start busting your ass and learn a useful skill.

There is a huge shortage of talent in technical fields like engineering, and an even bigger shortage of skilled labor like electricians, pipe fitters, and welders. These shortages are only getting worse as more and more boomers retire. I’ve been working for almost a decade now, and I’ve only met 2 or 3 engineers that weren’t either my age, younger, or 25+ years older than me. There aren’t many 40-50 year old engineers running around right now. It’s like a whole generation was skipped.[/quote]

Skilled labor is hard to beat. Most people can shuffle paper or fill out a TPS report, not many people can walk into a situation where everything is at a “full stop” because of a mechanical/electrical failure and fix it so that the customer can get back to work. Bonus points if you fix it quickly.

As technology evolves at a pace that’s hard to imagine, the people who support that technology or power that technology in a reliable way become more and more invaluable. I’ve already made over 100K this year as commercial electrician. My customers would pay me to work around the clock if they could, I actually turn work away sometimes. I chose to specialize in critical power and controls. When my mortgage venture took a shit, I went to the GOM to work in the oil industry for a bit to make some loot and bang the rust off of my tools and came back and leveraged my experience to get with a company that does a lot of data center work.

Now I work on generators, PLCs, ATS’s, UPS systems, Distributive bypass systems, and shit ton of other cool, highly technical equipment. I am now considered to be one of the most highly qualified critical power electricians in the DC area. This area needs hundreds of guys like me, but there aren’t any.

Where the rubber meets the road is where the value is. If you are the guy that can figure out the problem and fix it quickly, no matter what specialty it is, you will be successful. The skilled will survive.

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Over the past year or so I’ve come to believe that skilled labor is probably a better option than college.

I got out of undergrad with very little debt. Which I paid off in a year. Grad School was mostly free. I see many undergraduates coming out 60k in debt with a useless degree. Not worth it IMO.

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[quote]angry chicken wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
I just finished reading Mastery by Robert Greene, and I’m not sure if any of you have read it, but the premise of the book is to follow your passion rather than following the path laid out for you by society. It’s human nature to want to follow a path in which something is guaranteed. You follow this certain career path, you will get ______ and ____ a year. Everyone wants a linear path.

In the book, you learn of many successful people who were revolutionary because they refused to follow the societal norms of their time. Basically, what’s your view on choosing a career. Should you follow your passion? Or is this a fallacy? Should you go where you think you’ll get the money regardless of whether you like the career path or not? If you could do it all over again what would you do? If you haven’t made your career choice yet, what do you plan on?

My view is that you should follow your passion. If you a passionate about something and positive, eventually through that dedication to your passion, positivity and success will find you and maybe even present you with the opportunity to combine your interests into a new “path”. [/quote]

Nope. For every success story of people who “followed their passion” there are thousands of broken and dead failures relegated to obscurity.

And actually the only people who really follow their passion are the ones who are passionate about selling books to people who feel aimless and are looking for inspiration. Well, them and stalkers but that is a whole different meaning of those words.

Have a nice day. I hope nothing heavy falls on you.

[/quote]

Yet there are so many great jobs right now. Oh so many high paying job, and almost everyone’s employed right?
[/quote]

There are always plenty of jobs for people that bust their ass and have useful skills. You are 18; start busting your ass and learn a useful skill.

There is a huge shortage of talent in technical fields like engineering, and an even bigger shortage of skilled labor like electricians, pipe fitters, and welders. These shortages are only getting worse as more and more boomers retire. I’ve been working for almost a decade now, and I’ve only met 2 or 3 engineers that weren’t either my age, younger, or 25+ years older than me. There aren’t many 40-50 year old engineers running around right now. It’s like a whole generation was skipped.[/quote]

Skilled labor is hard to beat. Most people can shuffle paper or fill out a TPS report, not many people can walk into a situation where everything is at a “full stop” because of a mechanical/electrical failure and fix it so that the customer can get back to work. Bonus points if you fix it quickly.

As technology evolves at a pace that’s hard to imagine, the people who support that technology or power that technology in a reliable way become more and more invaluable. I’ve already made over 100K this year as commercial electrician. My customers would pay me to work around the clock if they could, I actually turn work away sometimes. I chose to specialize in critical power and controls. When my mortgage venture took a shit, I went to the GOM to work in the oil industry for a bit to make some loot and bang the rust off of my tools and came back and leveraged my experience to get with a company that does a lot of data center work.

Now I work on generators, PLCs, ATS’s, UPS systems, Distributive bypass systems, and shit ton of other cool, highly technical equipment. I am now considered to be one of the most highly qualified critical power electricians in the DC area. This area needs hundreds of guys like me, but there aren’t any.

Where the rubber meets the road is where the value is. If you are the guy that can figure out the problem and fix it quickly, no matter what specialty it is, you will be successful. The skilled will survive.[/quote]

Do you see yourself being able to perform this work until retirement? Or are you going to become an owner/manager of a crew/business?

I just can’t imagine that once some one is 45/50 yrs old, they want to get their hands dirty and be in a physically demanding job. Arthritis, joint pain etc.

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[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Unfortunately, in life, sometimes you have to do things you don’t give a shit about to pay for the things you do give a shit about. The path less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Can you be successful at something you are “passionate” about, sure. That’s every entrepreneurs dream. What’s their success rate? [/quote]

Yes that’s true. But doing something you don’t give a shit about as a career sounds like a recipe for disaster. We all have to do things we don’t want to do, I’m not saying you should avoid things you don’t want to do. But, your job will be a rather large part of your life. I guess it depends. If you feel having a plan with a linear path is better for you then do that. If you accept the risk of not taking the conventional path, but think you’ll be happier then do that. [/quote]
I am catching up on thread but I will say this comes off as very naive.