Taken literally, however, the idea of following your passion is terrible advice. Finding a career that’s the right ‘fit’ for you is crucial to finding a career, but believing you must find some preordained ‘passion’ and then pursue jobs that match it is all wrong. Ask yourself, is following your passion a good way to achieve personal satisfaction in the job you love? Should you pick a career by identifying your greatest interest, finding jobs that ‘match’ that interest and pursuing them no matter what? On the basis of the evidence, the answer seems to be ‘no’.
