Following your passion in business

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short advice monologue, the speaker addresses Feras about choosing a post‑college career. He argues that passion is overrated and optional, while skills and willingness to sacrifice are essential. He urges building both soft skills—such as active listening, effective communication, and handling difficult customer‑support situations—and hard skills related to one's academic background. By combining these skill sets and gaining experience, one creates many career options, allowing the pursuit of personal passions later, possibly outside of work.

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Hey, Feras, how can I choose a career path out of college that I'm passionate about? Folks, passion, this whole thing about passion, it's overrated. Passion is optional. Skills and sacrifice are not. I want you to build more skills, soft skills and hard skills. Soft skills like active listening, like becoming a better communicator, learning how to deal with people in difficult situations like a customer support situation. And then hard skills, things that you are good at, whatever you studied, college. So, so the combination of soft skills and hard skills will get you where you want to go. Passion comes later. You can fulfill your passion outside of work, but for work, build skills, build some experience, then you'll have a whole lot of options to do things you're passionate about.