Your friend sounds suspiciously like my brother, except he's into music. He plays the piano beautifully. What's exceptional is that after listening to a song, any song, he can reproduce both the melody and accompaniment in perfection and even add in his improvisations! But he couldn't carve a career out of music. He's now just a small-role programmer in a bank (compared to his big talent in music), but he's happy with his rather high income now.
He now plays the piano for leisure and coaches his daughter in music.
Back on topic, it seems that the government is now encouraging the interactive media technology, whatever that means. Chances are it will be just another hype. Let me predict: the mainstream media will talk about media technology repeatedly, schools will start new courses, some small ikan bilis companies will set foot in Singapore (with generous funding from the
EDB), and then the bubble will burst.
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Originally Posted by bjhchong
Then again, let me tell you a tale about pursuing one's passion:
A person I know loves the glamor of artists & illustrators. Despite pressure from his family, he pursue his passion. After graduating from computer engineering with a mediocre grade, he gave up his degree to pursue his dream as a commercial artist... Fast forward 15 years & 2 downturns later, he's right back on his engineering track, chasing a career in R&D & had a masters in science. Why? An artist, not matter how good you are, is first a salesman... and everything PR in between and lastly your skills... in a place where PR/EQ were not emphasised from young, unless you are a natural born crowd pleaser, you just can't cut it. My friend, luckily, realize his lack-of-talent & fell-back on his qualification. Till today, he is still cursing at being misled by his naive ambition in his younger days.
My bottom-line is this: To ingrain in a person to choose smart, not to be persuaded by the "latest fad" nor in one's foolish passion. Now, how do we go about THAT is the ultimate challenge.
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