Joey Graceffa chose theater over vocational school because it felt right, and his stepfather taught him hard work makes anything possible. He argues money follows passion, not the other way around, and chasing only paychecks leads to burnout.
Maybe two things can be true, right? Yeah. There can be an element of fate and there can be an element of creating your own outcomes. But what, what is your general understanding or thought about it? Well, I think it's like listening to your gut and your heart of what you truly want. And had I not followed what I truly wanted to do and thought more of like, well, what's gonna benefit me in the long run? Like if I go to like this vocational school, I don't have to like go to college and I could save money there. But like, that's not going to make me happy. Like, I need to think about what my true happiness was. And at that time it was like being in theater and doing plays and stuff. And I just followed the passion. And that also went with like what I wanted to do in life. My stepfather made it very clear to me at a young age that anything in life was possible if I just worked hard enough. And without him telling me that, I think I would have limited myself on what I thought was possible because he truly made it seem like Whatever, like, as long as you're following what you love, the money will follow. And don't go into something for the money because you're going to get burnt out. You're not going to enjoy it. And there's no point. So I'm very grateful for that lesson.
