Rhetorical Analysis Of ' A Life Beyond Do What You Love '

Many people place what they love doing as their top priority when considering future career options. However, Gordon Marino, professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College and editor of The Quotable Kierkegaard, believes that this should not be the case. He wrote on the subject in his article titled “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’”, which was published in The New York Times on May 17, 2014. His purpose in writing this article is to offer a different view of a commonly held belief. Mr. Marino argues that the statement “do what you love” is an elitist aspect of our culture that degrades the inherent value of work and severs connections between work, talent, and duty. He supports his argument through his anecdotes denoting his personal experience, continuous appeals to authority, his use of deductive reasoning, and through procatalepsis.

In the past 16 years of my life, I never could come up with an answer to the question “who is Dudley?”. I struggled with finding out who I was and what my future had in store for me. When someone would ask me what my career choice would be, I was always at a loss for words. However, today, though I still may not have chosen what others would call a “dream job”, my objective stays the same and it’s to grow, strive and to never settle for less in order to discover what profession is most suitable for me. “Education is the key” is what my parents always tell me. Growing up in a Haitian household, I had to abide by the three L’s “legliz, Lekol, Lakay” which meant “church, school, home”. At one point of my life, I hated those rules because I believed

“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

“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.

To start off the essay, Marino shares a story about a student who goes seeking him for advice. To further increase credibility, Marino cites works written by Miya Tokumitsu and Kant. Starting with his own credibility Marino starts with, "Just the other day, a sophomore made an appointment because he was worrying about whether or not he should become a doctor or a philosophy professor. A few minutes later, he nervously confessed that he had also thought of giving stand-up comedy a whirl." (Page 1, Paragraph 1). Later Marino explains, "The writer Miya Tokumitsu argued that the "do what you love" ethos so ubiquitous in our culture is in fact elitist because it degrades work that is not done from love." (Page 1, Paragraph 3). Next, Marino mentions, "Kant huffs, no- one cannot possibly will that letting one's talents rust for the sake of pleasure should be a universal law of nature." (Page 3, Paragraph 2). By sharing that Marino himself is a man that students consult for advice, he creates this identity for himself as a man who can be trusted. To increase this credibility, Gordon Marino cites works from people who are already considered creditable to support his point. By doing these things, Marino can convince the reader that his point is valid, because of the works already done by great thinkers. Within his anecdotes, Marino is able to confirm his

As I started to read the required material for the first week in the book. It stated that if you are looking to make a lot of money human services is not the career of choice. I started to think, people who make six figure are not happy because they decided on a career basic on the salary. In life it is all about happiness, don’t get me mislead money plays a big part in everything. But happiness is the key living a long life, choosing a career because of money simply will make a people not love their career. Human services are my choice for a career because money wasn’t my primary focus, helping people in tough times was my concentration. Everyone needs help in their lives and I decided that a career human services, will always be about

Choosing a career is not always based on what someone is most passionate about. It can be about the pay rate, the hours or even the environment. Gordon Marino author of "A Life Beyond Do What You Love", published in 2014 in the New York Times, reasons that people should not only do what they love but perform something that can benefit society or their families. Mariano is a professor of philosophy, a student advisor and a community volunteer. He came to realize that adults who mentor and advise young adults should not only tell them to "Do What they Love."

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.”

When making career decisions that are in harmony with one’s self and with the will of God (Christian, 208) one should be praying for wisdom to make godly decisions, sensing inner

Life is more about more than what one loves to do. In Dr. Marino’s essay “A Life Beyond Do What You Love” he is trying to let everyone know that life isn’t always do what one loves to do. Sometimes in life things are harder. The family comes first in most situations and not what one loves to do. Also what one loves to do may not pay the bills.

In the article, "A Life Beyond 'Do What You Love,'" we see Gordon Marino argue the infamous statement "Do what you love." He advocates the concept of doing your duty. The essence of Marino's argument is that, "Sometimes we should do what we hate, or what most needs doing, and do it the best we can." Moreover, Mariono's argument is so full of rhetoric, it could almost even convince the biggest dreamer to pursue a job in accounting simply because they've got a gift for math. Marino uses relatable anecdotes that can easily lead the reader to think of a hard working parent or grandparent in their life.

Summary of "A Life Beyond 'Do What You Love'" by Gordon Marino In the "A Life Beyond 'Do What You Love'". Gordon Marino talks about how the other day a student had mixed feelings about what he wanted to do as a job or even in life. As Gordon is an occupational counselor his reaction has always been. "What are you most passionate about?", but is "do what you love" wisdom or malarkey?

My explanation somehow did not work well. I started struggling between my career and my father’s “career”. Before it was too late to decide my major, I gave a chance for myself and picked something related to my future career.

We all have expectations in life as individuals, Parents expect their child or children to go through education to become successful and be great in life. But many people are blind to follow their true calling and this is a major problem in the world that affects industries when such individuals are employed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883) said, “Each man has his own vocation, his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.” (p. 112). He was speaking of the gifts granted us by God to fulfill the plan that He has for our life. Discovering and utilizing those gifts is part of the decision making process in career counseling. Christians advocate the use of spiritual discernment in order to guide the decision making process. Properly interpreting the will of God for one’s life is at the heart of each of our choices including those choices involving vocation.