My gut instinct is that both following one's passion and having one's passion follow oneself could work. There are clearly documented cases of the former - Warr

My gut instinct is that both following one's passion and having one's passion follow oneself could work. There are clearly documented cases of the former - Warren Buffet for instance, as he is fond of repeating. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/warren-buffett-career-advice-independently-wealthy_n_2158317.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/warren-buffett-care... On the other hand there's the Koch brothers who simply carried on with their father's rather mundane raw materials business and made it into a mega-empire. When asked about that I remember one of them saying in an interview "That's just the hand we were dealt."