Do what you love. 

It is often the most common advice to young people looking for a job. And some find it after years of pursuit. 

It sounds like it’s such an easy thing to do, but it can be challenging. 

And if you have bills to pay or a family to support, that can increase the pressure to “make it.” 

After graduating college, I knew I wanted to be a professional speaker, but I needed to figure out how to do it. So I joined three toastmaster clubs to improve my craft and went back to personal training to support myself and pay off my student loans.

Two years later, I started working for Skillpath Seminars earning $225 a day. I did this for about two years until my skill set and confidence were at a point I could make it on my own.

And since then, it’s been a long, challenging, and lonesome road of “doing what I love” And now, over ten years later, I’m charging 44x than when I started and have become a new person. 

The advice I would give about doing what you love

If you pursue what you love, be prepared to pay the price because success might take longer than you think. 

By Eric Papp 

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