Why I Won’t Tell My Sons to Just Follow Their Passions

Tim Cavey
5 min readMay 22, 2018
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Ignore the money and just follow your passions.

This is the career advice offered to students by some teachers today. It’s an appealing and romantic message, and these educators mean well.

What they mean is this. Don’t allow yourself to be pushed into a professional track not of your choosing. Don’t enroll in a 5-year university program and take…

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Tim Cavey

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