18 min
Is Following Your Passion a Good Idea? LRC Chats
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- Education
Description:
Is pursuing your passion still a good idea? In this episode, we interview Ed Venegas, Career Counselor for the Cal Poly Pomona Career Center. Together we explore the long term benefits of pursuing your passion, and how this is often difficult for non-traditional and minority college students who are trying to start a career.
Highlights:
2.49 Can choosing a major based on future salary lead to an unhappy career?
6.50 The negative and untrue perception of changing careers and majors.
8.50 Disangementment trauma. Not knowing who you truly are when you ignore your passion.
10.20 How can you make your passion marketable.
12.55 Tips for those struggling to plan 10 years in advance.
12.37 All you can do is your best. How many times when you plan something does it actually happen?
15.51 Last tip from Ed Venegas.
17.43 Last take away from this podcast.
All Music Credits to:
In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
Come On, Let’s Go by Le Gang | https://soundcloud.com/thisislegang. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Description:
Is pursuing your passion still a good idea? In this episode, we interview Ed Venegas, Career Counselor for the Cal Poly Pomona Career Center. Together we explore the long term benefits of pursuing your passion, and how this is often difficult for non-traditional and minority college students who are trying to start a career.
Highlights:
2.49 Can choosing a major based on future salary lead to an unhappy career?
6.50 The negative and untrue perception of changing careers and majors.
8.50 Disangementment trauma. Not knowing who you truly are when you ignore your passion.
10.20 How can you make your passion marketable.
12.55 Tips for those struggling to plan 10 years in advance.
12.37 All you can do is your best. How many times when you plan something does it actually happen?
15.51 Last tip from Ed Venegas.
17.43 Last take away from this podcast.
All Music Credits to:
In My Mind by Deoxys Beats | https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
Come On, Let’s Go by Le Gang | https://soundcloud.com/thisislegang. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
18 min