Free Advice Is Just That

These days it's clearly the fashion
To tell college grads: "Follow your passion."
Yet consider this quick note of caution:
  Make sure with your passion you'll cash in.

                 For Example:
What if your passion is playing trombone?
You spend years and years trying to hone
The skill to emit the purest of tones;
  But will you reap what you've sown?
  Or simply work your fingers to the bone,
  So you can stand in line for a loan?

                 Remember:
In life it pays to be practical,
Neither over didactical or under tactical;
  For it not, the consequences
  Tend to be quite 'dramatical,'
  Or possibly morbidly theatrical.  

                Bottom Line:
So when deciding on what occupation to make your splash in,
Do not necessarily follow your passion,
Especially if it's something quite asinine.
  Sign up instead for MY 'profession:'
  Do as I say, not what you're best in!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Gauthier Avatar
March 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM
Worthy message well delivered, Gershon- there's lofty ideals and then there's the reality we live in... A most pleasant read.
Wolf Avatar
March 5, 2018 at 8:35 PM
Thank you for the kind words...It's a message not often delivered on university campuses, unfortunately...
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