Whatever you end up doing in this life, make sure above all that it's interesting. Because most likely you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life working for a living. And if what you do bores you, that means you're going to spend a third of the rest of your life being bored.
Terry Teachout
Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Commencement 2011, 2011
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Terry Teachout, the celebrated drama and cultural critic for The Wall Street Journal, delivered a characteristically concise and punchy commencement address at the Hamilton Holt School of Rollins College in May 2011. He opened by acknowledging the remarkable achievement of the graduates — working adults who had earned their degrees at night while holding down full-time jobs. This advice came from deeply personal experience. Teachout recalled watching his father spend most of his working life in a job that didn't engage enough of his brain to keep him satisfied, having not set his sights high enough as a young man. The observation made a lasting impression on the young Teachout, who resolved that whatever he ended up doing, he wouldn't be bored. He went on to become a drama critic — a job he loved so much that he regularly told himself, 'I have the best job in the world.'