Honore De Balzac

As a young man entering my senior year of high school, my mind races as I try to figure out what it is that I’ll commit my life to. What will be the driving passion, the purpose of my existence, the reason I get out of bed every morning to face another day of this life? Some people would try to encourage me to choose a career simply for its potential to make me wealthy. However, looking at the degenerate lives of the rich and the famous around the world, its apparent to me that the pursuit of earthly riches alone isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. I’d rather spend my days in pursuit of something more fulfilling. As far as I can tell from my

Many have experienced an encounter as a young child where they are asked what they want to be when they grow up. Answering that question may be easy as a kid because your mind is filled with thoughts of being the unimaginable. As you grow much older, those ideas begin to depart from the mind and you are suddenly more aware of what is and what is not possible in this world. When beginning the most important years of high school, you stop and rethink your career choice numerous times, stressing on who and what you want to be. Many adults such as teachers, counselors, and parents will emphasize the importance of knowing where you want to be in the future during high school, sometimes even middle school. It became imperative that one chose their

All throughout school, students are ask what we want to be when we grow up. Many of us know or have a pretty good idea, but others have no clue what they want to pursue as a career in life, whether it be furthering their education at a university or attending a technical school. There are other students that plan to start work right out of high school. Either way we all have a plan, and the purpose of this paper is to inform you of mine. I personally struggle in making big decisions like deciding what to do with my life, but then I realized I have been asking myself the wrong questions. Instead of asking what I want to be when I grow up, I asked myself what do I want out of life? what are some of my goals that I wish to achieve? This led

“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a

Growing up the main question a child is asked is, “What do you want to be when you grow up? “ , and most kids respond saying a doctor, lawyer, or a cop. In reality not everyone sticks to their first idea, and it’s slim that they actual start working in the chosen career. In my case, I have always wanted to work as a social worker or a therapist, but I realized it wasn’t in my budget. Therefore, I have decided; as well as, grew interest in being a dental assistant for a pediatric office.

Student need to do what they love. Find something that they will want to study or risk never being successful because they’ll be bored with their job. College has a huge variety of programs that can be studied so chances are there is one out there for everyone. If students find something they love to do then college really won’t be too difficult and they will like their job afterwards. “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is closest to being play” (Edmundson), jobs should be something enjoyable, almost like having fun doing a hobby. People need to do what they love so they won’t be bored or held back by their lack of enthusiasm and excel to and move up in the workplace being more and more successful.

(Ethos/Credibility) I've made a huge research upon this issue and find out that a sleep of a minimum of 8 hours is extremely necessary, no matter one belong to which stage of life and work at anywhere.

"Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you" (Rand 22).

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. “ Those words, spoken by Confucius, represent the goal of not only mine, but many others when it comes to finding your true calling. The voyage to find your purpose in life can be quite difficult. Often times this journey proves too challenging and forces an individual to give up all together and instead settle for something easier to obtain and inferior to their original goal. This can commonly lead to feelings of unfulfillment and regret in the choices you have made. It’s not until you find your true calling that you go from thinking about your job as something that you have to do to something that you love doing.

Thank you for having us read the tragedy of Willy Loman, The Death of a Salesman. You can work hard at anything, but if you are not passionate about it, you will get nowhere. It reminds me of one of my brothers that didn't realize he was chasing the wrong dream until it was too late. At school he was pursing different subjects, but at home he was passionate about music and rapping. Since he was an exceptional artist, he decided to go to an art school. Soon he realized it wasn't for him and dropped out, and now he has to start over. We must realize now while we still have the time and resources what we want from life and what we are passionate about. If we don't ask ourselves these questions now, we may not have later to consider them.

From a young age, children are taught to do what they love. Famous role models instruct young dreamers to follow whatever they're passionate about. But is this advice, actual sound advice? Gordon Marino argues that doing what you love, isn't always the right choice. In the article A Life Beyond 'Do What You Love' Marino argues "Sometimes we should do what we hate, or what most needs doing, and do it as best we can." (Page 4, Paragraph 2). Throughout the article, Marino provides multiple rhetorical devices to emphasize his thesis. Gordon Marino, a Philosophy professor at the St. Olaf College, writes this thought provoking article in hopes to persuade his audience. His audience consists of the young people who are about to take their first steps

In his article, A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’, Gordon Marino discusses his conferences with his students about figuring out what their love to do is. Many times Marino comes across students who are doing what they need to do to pass through life, not what they want to do. “Many of them are used to delivering papers at 5 a.m., slinging shingles all day or loading trucks all night.They are accustomed to doing whatever they need to do to help out their families.” (Marino 2) Throughout the article, Marino uses an anecdote of his life and how his father had a job he detested just so he could send his children to college. “...father turned necessity into a virtue, or that taking the best care you can of your family is really a form of self-service.”

It is rare to see a child dream of becoming an accountant or secretary, but somehow through life their dreams changed to fit reality. Children “wake up” from their perceptions of their communities and become aware of the society they live in and its flaws. Of course they can work when they are young to form themselves to fit into the future they want, but oftentimes our communities will block us from what we want to do to reroute us to fit what they think you should do. John Locke, Jean-Paul Sartre, and John Calvin debated different positions on the ideas of being born with a set purpose to being born with the ability to choose what your final purpose in life is, but a concrete answer was never settled on. Living in a modern world filled with

Honoré Daumier studied drawing at the Académie Suisse where he learned the technique of lithography. He began creating lithographs for magazines after the 1830 revolution in Paris. The Rue Transnonain (84) was sold by subscription to raise money for a legal defense fund and further freedom of the press. The Rue Transnonain is a rather gruesome scene. It features the dead bodies of residents who were killed by a government squad. The squad killed everyone they believed could have been the assassin of one of their guards. In the black and white scene an entire family is dressed in nightgowns and appear to have been woken from their sleep.

Parents push their children to have more academic jobs and majors to improve their child's “status.” But when a student with high academic achievement chooses to have a vocational style job it is seen as unfortunate or even a waste of genius and intellect. Students should have the opportunity to be trained in whatever careers they want, even if it is a more vocational job like a trade instead of an academic job. If these students find these vocational jobs more meaningful than any academic job they should have the right to choose them because of their pursuit of happiness.