Career Advice and the Three Types of Jobholders

Find a passion and follow it is all the career advice that you'll ever need.
Michael Nolan was right when he said, "If you love what you do, you will
never work another day in your life." I can say "Amen" to that. I've never
known what it is to work a day in my life. I love to do what I do.

Sadly, not everyone is as fortunate as I am to do work they really love. I
think that the world would be a much better place if everyone were happy
with their jobs. Still, many people just go to work day in and day out,
trading hours for dollars simply because they don't know what they'd like to
do or they are afraid to leave a secure job to go after their dreams.

I have found that people tend to fall into one of the following three
categories:

Those who don't know what they'd like to do.
This type of person is confused. Everybody knows somebody just like that.
These people have no clue--they just get up in the morning and float through
life without much of a plan of action. They don't know what they'd like to
do and when you ask them about it, they just look at you with a blank face
and don't have an answer.

Those who know what they would like to do, but don't do it.
This type of person is frustrated. In fact, they'll tell you what they'd
like to do. "Oh, I'd like to be this or I'd like to do this, I'd like to go
there." You might ask them, "Well, why aren't you there, and why don't you
do that?" Their answers usually consist of a bunch of excuses. In other
words, they know what they'd like to do, but they don't do it. They don't
seem to have the initiative, the energy, whatever it is takes to get to
where they want to be and so they go through life knowing what they'd like
to do but never doing it, and as a result, they're frustrated.

Those who do what they'd like to do.
This type of person is fulfilled. They have a sense of significance and
fulfillment in their life. They really like to do what they do. They say,
"I'm accomplishing something that brings not only worth to me but also worth
to others." If you have made your dream come true (and continue to make it
come true each day you live and work), this is who you are. If you know what
you would like to do, but don't do it, this is who you want to be. Even some
or most people who fall into the first category want to be here.