Intro

What makes you itch? What sort of
A situation would you like?
Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance
Of students, they come to me and say, well

"We’re getting out of college and we have the faintest
Idea what we want to do". So I always ask the question,
"What would you like to do if money were no object?
How would you really enjoy spending your life?"

Well, it’s so amazing as a result of our kind
Of educational system, crowds of students
Say well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets
We’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows
You can’t earn any money that way
Or another person says well, I’d like to live an
Out-of-doors life and ride horses
I said you want to teach in a riding school?
Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do?

When we finally got down to something
Which the individual says he really wants to do
I will say to him, you do that and forget the money
Because, if you say that getting the money
Is the most important thing, you will spend your life
Completely wasting your time
You’ll be doing things
You don’t like doing in order to go on living
That is to go on doing things
You don’t like doing, which is stupid
And so, therefore,
It’s so important to consider this question:
What do I desire?