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
The Story Behind This Quote
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.'
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