Originally Posted by Unregistered

Steve Jobs was correct because his passion turned him on a uphill ride. He has the rights to give the inspiring speech and did the right thing to ask everyone to follow him in the pursuant for passion, which will bring better years. He was correct because... he succeeded.

It's the same whenever I watched the Taiwan version of Amercian Idol. Cannot remember the name but in spite of every participant's 'dreams and passions', there could only be one winner. And the rest of them left the stage with tears and some even went on to push the blame on others. But the failures failed to see that there's only one winner on stage.

While the route taken by Steve Jobs may not be lonely, as there could be many other winners in technology pioneering, we have to take note that it's always the winners making stage claims. Kudos to Steve Jobs for his contribution, but his claims to passions ought to be taken objectively, and well thought.

I'll just sum up with this: Always count the costs if one wants to pursue passion and not career in Singapore. Take note, it's SINGAPORE.

When young, I always wanted to be a Scientific Dimensional Researcher, or anything to do with astronomy, but Singapore just didn't have the market and my grades also didn't make it. I didn't continue my passion though.