What My Dad Always Said

Find something you love to do, and you'll never work a day in your life.

Do what you love, and find someone who will pay you for it.

Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."

What I Learned

Like any sacred prayer, these axioms live and breathe.  They existed in the very walls of my parents' home.  They were part of the food we ate.  They were the blankets that bundled our feet at night.  My father, the one more devoted to rote, passed these values on to me and my brother with every bit of the reverence that accompanied, "take care of each other," and "listen to your mother."  Turns out, he was right.