Edward Patrick Akinyemi
Yes, but one condition only. Let’s say my daughter wants to be a comedian, fine, but then she has to do absolutely fucking everything she can to make it work.
I don’t want any of this “I’m really passionate about comedy” and then see you scrolling on Facebook for two hours per day. Passionate about comedy? Then read every book there is about it, watch documentaries about how the Jerry Seinfelds or Dave Chappelle’s rose to the fame they are at today, follow blogs of the best comedians, reach out to comedians for advice, take online courses on improving your comedy-related skills, and so on.
I constantly hear teenagers throw around this term “passion” as if it’s a free lunch.Passionate about an unorthodox career choice? Well then you better work twice or three times as hard to make it work because these career paths are unorthodox precisely because they are much more difficult to pull off.
If I see my child do everything, and I mean everything, she possibly can to make her career choice happen, then hell yeah I’ll support her. But if I see this half-assed shit of paying lip service to this ‘passion’ but not put in the hard hours to acquire the skills needed for it and beyond, then absolutely not.

是的,但只有一个条件。假设我女儿想成为一名喜剧演员,好吧,但她必须尽她所能来有所成就。
我不想看到你每天在脸书上滚动两个小时“我真的很喜欢喜剧”(的话题)。喜欢喜剧吗?然后阅读每一本关于它的书,观看关于杰瑞·宋飞或大卫·查普尔如何成名的纪录片,关注最佳喜剧演员的博客,向喜剧演员寻求建议,参加在线课程,提高你的喜剧相关技能,等等。
我经常听到青少年把“激情”这个词当作免费午餐。对非正统职业选择充满激情?那么你最好加倍努力工作。因为这些职业道路之所以是非正统的,正是因为它们更难实现。
如果我看到我的孩子做了一切,我的意思是一切,并可能依此做出她的职业选择,那么我会支持她。但是,如果我看到这种半途而废的狗屎,对这种“激情”只是口头上说说而已,却没有花上艰苦的时间去获得它所需要的技能,那绝对不行。