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Choosing a career: Don't follow your passion?

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to choosing a career, should you do what you love or learn to love whatever you do? A clip of Professor Scott Galloway of NYU Stern Business School saying "don't follow your passion" recently went viral. He tells us why you're better off finding something you're good at - and getting very good at it. Someone who did just that is Farid Gasanov. Instead of becoming a professional pianist and composer, he chose accountancy. But he now has his own firm and has time to compose pieces, and play them on the piano he has been able to afford.

(Picture: Farid Gasanov playing his piano. Credit: Farid Gasanov.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuel Saragossa.

0:07.0

Coming up, when it comes to work, is it a case of do what you love or just learn to love whatever it is that you do?

0:14.1

If you go on Instagram, you'd be under the impression that anybody who just has a love of food, a love of fashion, a love of art,

0:22.5

if they continue just to love it, are going to find economic security from it.

0:27.3

And I find that is not the case.

0:29.1

Careers advice from the business guru Scott Galloway coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.

0:53.3

Music Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Farad. I'm from London. I'm from London. I'm from London, I run Q accountants, London-based firm serving UK clients.

1:00.8

I had lots of passions, but I guess the one that was very, very close to my heart and still is very close, is music.

1:11.7

31-year-old Farid Gassanoff may be an accountant,

1:15.5

but the great love of his life is playing the piano and composing piano pieces.

1:19.8

What you're hearing is him playing one of his compositions.

1:23.5

And once upon a time, Farid did consider a career in music.

1:31.2

Music And once upon a time, Farid did consider a career in music. There was a point I was thinking about that, yes.

1:34.0

And then, for me, it's the music and the compositions is something in a way that I'm doing for myself.

1:42.2

Perhaps I never had this passion of going and showing

1:45.6

to the world and becoming famous. And then my way of going about it was, okay, if I go and try to

1:53.9

become the musician, it's a wonderful thing, of course, but I may struggle to find finance,

2:00.4

to get the best piano in the world.

2:03.5

And then I've decided, all right, then what can I do?

2:07.2

And I was, I finished the finance.

2:09.8

I had a master's degree in banking and finance.

2:12.3

So I've decided to pursue a career in the finance world.

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