Paul Graham, whose essays I always enjoy, has an interesting article entitled, “How to do what you love.” I especially like the following, since it seems to fit perfectly with some conversations I’ve had over the last four years: “I remember vividly when an older friend who was majoring in English in college was asked what he was going to ‘do with that.’ I don’t remember his exact words, but his reply was the standard line about liberal education: that the purpose of college is not job training, but to learn. This of course seems a cliche now (and not even true), but at the time it was a revelation. Suddenly there was a huge and very exciting crack in the glum doctrine of school = work = pain that I’d always taken for granted. In college the idea of work finally broke free from the idea of making a living. Now the important question was not how to make money, but what to work on.”