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Give your dream a deadline
Setting benchmarks
A benchmark can be as plain as moving out of a parent's home by 24. An aspiring actor might need health insurance of their own within three years. The numbers behind that one are stark: 83% of actors don't qualify for health insurance through SAG-AFTRA, because they don't earn more than $23,000 a year.
Athletes who started late
The regret tends to fall on people who got a late start. A group of athletes at UCLA, some of whom went to the Olympics, were calling a friend at 28 looking for a job. Winning a bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics is great, and going straight into the workforce at 22 and buying tickets to the Olympics would have left them with a career.
Passion versus career
The stories that get publicized are about people who turn down the corporate world and their parents' advice and decide their dream is opening a restaurant. TikTok says to find your passion and never give up, yet there is a time to move on. The people who end up with the most regret mistook a passion or a hobby for a career.
Why do most actors miss union health coverage?
SAG-AFTRA's health plan ties eligibility to earnings from union-covered work during a set qualifying period. Acting work is project-based, with long gaps between jobs, so many members never reach the threshold in a given year. Income from non-union jobs, such as waiting tables, does not count toward it.
Why do athletes struggle once their careers end?
Sports psychologists describe athletic identity, the degree to which a person sees themselves mainly as an athlete. Researchers have linked a strong athletic identity to a harder adjustment when competition ends, because years of training leave little room to build other roles and skills. The NCAA has estimated that only about two percent of college athletes go on to play professionally. For nearly all of them, the working years begin without the sport.
Why can find your passion advice backfire?
In a 2018 study in Psychological Science, Paul O'Keefe, Carol Dweck, and Gregory Walton at Stanford looked at how people think about interests. People who believed an interest is something you find, already formed, lost enthusiasm sooner when the material got difficult. People who believed interests are developed over time stayed engaged longer. The researchers concluded that the find-your-passion framing can discourage the effort that builds an interest.
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