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Don't Follow Your Passion - Mike Rowe
Realistic look at this, 'follow your passion' nonsense.
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Damn good advice. Rowe is a smart White man.
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Work - you're not supposed to enjoy it, you're supposed to tolerate it for a pay check. That is how things are for most people.
I do agree with his point about a lot of people sucking at things they enjoy doing. Nobody is capable of being at a professional level of skill at anything they attempt to do. Some people have a knack for certain things, whereas others don't. Figuring out that you suck at something, and deciding to move on to something else is a life lesson that smarter people learn sooner rather than later. There is such a thing as wasted effort, IMO of course. The only way to know if you don't suck at something is to compare yourself with others. I'll use an example. In HS, I took a machining class. I was terrible at it. I scrapped more parts than anyone else in the class did. So many, that they wrote my name on the scrap bin. It bothered me, because I tried really hard to do well. I knew right then and there I wasn't going to pursue that trade any further. That doesn't mean I didn't learn something, I can still make simple parts, its just my error rate is too high to be employable in that trade. Most shops expect you to have an error rate of under 5-6%. Last edited by Crowe; November 8th, 2014 at 11:05 AM. |
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Ironically, my trade is machining, and I sucked at Metals class in school too, mainly because I was a stoner though :/
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Charles Darwin was passionate about biological science. Buzz Aldrin about space exploration. Adolph Hitler was passionate about his folk in resisting the jew. I agree that the state of modern idiocracy is such that we are constantly bombarded by useless platitudes, such as the poster described, but this doesn't negate the importance of choosing a career that is what you enjoy. You would have to be an idiot not to choose a career that interests you if you have the opportunity to. Impassioned White people have done incredible things.
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Following your passion makes perfect sense. Note, the expression is not follow your interests, there's a difference. Most people are not passionate about anything.
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I had a classmate in high school (late '70's), a geek who was really into 'Star Wars'. Pretty good in art and he got into making replicas of the characters in Star Wars and other movies. Think he made a giant 'Jaws' replica shark too.
Decided that he was going to make it in the movies as some sort of stagecraft/special effects person. Seemed to be pretty passionate about it, cobbled up the means to go to some school and go to Hollywood afterward. It turned out to be a total failure. Last I heard he was slave laboring at some factory back in the hometown. He was passionate about that particular pursuit but lacked in other life skills required to follow through. This thread got me to thinking about the whole thing again; I think that following your passion makes perfect sense, when combined with a realistic, balanced plan to pursue the goal. Like the person who wants to sing needs to realize they suck at singing and get going on some voice lessons.
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Merely showing up at a talent contest cuz it seems like a fun thing to do on that day, is not the same as the person that is obsessed with singing, that does it 14 hours a day, every day. |
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I was thinking about going back to tech school to learn how to be a bench tech and work on electronics. It would be a valuable skill to learn combined with some of the other stuff I know how to do. 1 year wait to get in that program. I put my name down on the list though. I'd like to be able to look at a circuit board and know exactly what I'm looking at, and if its fixable or how to fix it if its broken. I also looked into which programs had openings available, and damn near every trade there had a backlog, some even a 3 year wait. The only one that didn't have a backlog that you could get right in on was Machine Tool and Die. |
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I have some some electronics training and at one point thought along the lines you mentioned, but so much stuff is throw away anymore. To work at repairing boards you'll have to drone work for some major company. Field service work on CNC machining equipment might be worth looking into. There is currently a shortage of CNC operators and programmers. Not a bad trade to get into. To be a good programmer one needs to have some experience running them first though.
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**Follow Your Dreams!**
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