“Follow Your Passion: Probably the Worst Advice”
January 8th, 2009I’m lucky to have a job I’m passionate about. (Maybe some day I’ll tell the story about how I ended up here at ExpanDrive.) But I haven’t been passionate about all my jobs: taxi driving, retail, food service, construction, and grad student. In this video, Mike Rowe, the host of Discover Channel’s Dirty Jobs), argues that rather than finding work you’re passionate about, you should bring you passion to your work.
(Warning: Contains a verbal account of lamb castration.)
If you want the quick version, or if stories that involve you can read a shorter, less awesome essay Mike Rowe published at Frobes.com.
Tags: Dirty Jobs, lamb castration, video
January 8th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I think he’s confusing the definition of passion, and making a blanket statement himself. The people who do the dirty jobs, do it out of necessity, the fact that noone else wants to do it. If everyone did the dirty jobs, they wouldn’t be “dirty”, and they wouldn’t be lucrative.
Do something you’re passionate about, but don’t be stupid, if your passion is reading comics, the chances of you making money doing that are close to 0, but it can be done.. if you combine it with other things.
Not everyone is a leader, so yes you will have to have drones, but you can be a drone in a field you are passionate about. That’s how you can continue to take your passion to work.