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Impossible. The supply is already far, far higher than demand for certain professions - acting and basketball, for instance.
by klbarry 16y ago
Impossible. The supply is already far, far higher than demand for certain professions - acting and basketball, for instance.
- paul 16y agoYou incorrectly assume those are the only activities that those people could possibly enjoy doing. Part of the trick is finding the overlap between enjoyable and productive.
- rdouble 16y agoI think what he meant is that there are many more people for whom basketball is their passion than can actually make a living with basketball. Therefore, it's impossible to have a society where everyone truly follows their passion.
- nicholasjbs 16y agoThere are lots of ways to make a living if basketball is your passion beyond playing it professionally. For instance, you could do a sports-based startup (http://fanvibe.com http://fanvibe.com) or coach middle schoolers or open a sports memorabilia store. I don't see how you could definitively know it's not possible.
- rdouble 16y agoI was actually editing my message to say that I didn't necessarily agree with this, as I have uncles and cousins who are kid's basketball coaches. I do see where he's coming from, though.
- paul 16y agoThey can find a different passion. Basketball didn't even exist a few hundred years ago. People have the potential to enjoy more than one thing. Having the mindset of finding ways to enjoy things is the key, not mindlessly pursing the first "passion" you encounter.
- rdouble 16y agoHaving such a mindset is a great thing. For most, firing up a new passion is easier said than done.
- nostrademons 16y agoI'm curious - how many people have only one passion? I remember that when I was a kid, I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. Then I wanted to be a naval architect. (Well, technically I didn't know the names for either of those, I just knew I wanted to design planes and ships.) I played violin and clarinet, I wanted to be in a rock band, I liked computer programming, I fancied myself a novelist (even though I hated writing), I wanted to be a famous theoretical physicist, and I was going to make a few million dollars founding a software startup. I ended up a computer programmer, because that was the optimal intersection between what I wanted to be and what other people would pay for. Although that software startup may yet happen. But I continued - and sometimes still continue - the other things quite far along. I made All-State Orchestra in violin, and continued to play throughout college, and still occasionally pick it up. I nearly ended up a physics major; I didn't switch away from it until my last semester. Now that I have no immediate plans to become a writer, writing is kinda fun. Is this unusual? Do people get "stuck" on one dream and then ignore everything else that they might enjoy?
- ericdschmidt 16y agoYour story is very similar to mine. Except instead of music I was interested in film and comedy.
- kentosi 16y agoI have different goals/passions that don't seem to relate: programming, fitness, speaking different languages. Often, my greatest anxiety episodes arise from thinking of how I can balance these, and have a social life and do the laundry at the same time. I find articles like these great, because they get me just that one step closer to learning this how to figure it all out.
- KeithMajhor 16y agoDoes _everyone_ in society really need to be working. It seems that as technology advances the number of labor hours required per person would decrease. Maybe only a small percentage of people need to be following a productive passion.
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