Following Your Passion – Good Advice Or The Worst Advice Ever?
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August 8, 2022
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August 8, 2022Here’s some food for thought on this Monday:
That’s Scott Galloway, professor at NYU. And today, on this 3rd anniversary of our Chicks podcast with Radio America, it made me think about my career and how much it has changed.
I’m definitely following my passion now (and I know Daisy would say the same), but the professor is kinda right. We may have failed completely had we gone about doing our business as our main gig right out of the gate. The only reason we’ve been able to follow our passion now that we’re in our 50s is because of the years Daisy and I spent plugging away at our business WHILE we were keeping our families afloat with other jobs. But we knew we were good at it, and we kept getting better, and so here we are. We’re not Jay Z. Hardly anybody is Jay Z. But the good news is that if you’re good AT your passion, then you might just get to follow it at some point.
Thoughts?
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This is very good advice Mock.
Bingo.
I pursue my passion — being a novelist — in my spare time. But it’s my 9:00 to 5:00 that keeps the lights on and food in the fridge. It took me 12 years to get published, and I’m now working on my second novel. If my writing pays off, awesome! But if it doesn’t, I know that I’ve pursued and achieved my dream of being a published author without sacrificing my family’s economic well-being.
Instead of follow your passion I’d more so say don’t give up on it, in the long run it might pay out or you might happen upon a new one that is far more lucrative but none of this will come true if you aren’t sustaining yourself well enough.
100% agree.
If only there were a place where young people could learn things that would help them get (and keep) a job so that they could support themselves until someday they COULD follow their passion and turn it into, you know, a job.