Love this piece…Do what you love? Not all can do what they love in life but at least, do something on the side that will give you joy.
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We’ve all either given or received the career advice: “Follow your dreams.” “Do what you love.” “Love what you do.”
Recently, there have been an increasing number of counterarguments making the case that if we were all going to “do what we love,” we’d starve doing it.
I came across a 2006 post by Paul Graham: “How To Do What You Love” that offers what may be the best thought-leadership on the subject that I have read.
Graham is an essayist, programmer, and investor. In 1995, he co-developed the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Graham’s blog is one of the most followed in the blogosphere.
It is an essay (longish for those of us with…
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Very true. After 37 years in the corporate world, now I’m doing what I love – write 🙂
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Thank you!
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Thank you Spencer!
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I always try to do what I love, otherwise life is boring. I wish I had more time to do what I love and less what I need to do to pay the bills 🙂
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I totally agree with you. I always find time to do the things I love when I am not at work.
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