Gordon Marino's A Life Beyond Do What You Love

Choosing a career is not always based on what someone is greatly passionate about. It can be about the pay rate, the hours or even the environment. Gordon Marino author of "A Life Beyond Do What You Love", published in 2014 in the New York Times, believes that people should not only do what they love but perform something that can benefit society or their families. Mariano is a professor of philosophy, a student advisor and a community volunteer. He began to realize that when advising students, he would always tell them to do what they love even though in reality they did not know what they loved to do. He wanted to make the world realize that adults need to advise students with a better method. Telling young adults this advice is setting them up to fail, when they go out into the real world its not always about doing what someone loves.This advice models to young adults that they only can choose a career based on what …show more content…
The author provides a personal story that he has experienced to assemble the audience into accepting his argument which makes them consider twice about objecting it. First he says "Just the other day"(Page 1), which tells a story about him counseling a student about what job career he should take on. The students will be going from being a doctor to a philosophy professor which shows Marino he has no idea what he loves. Marino begins to realize he can 't advise this student to do what he loves if he doesn 't know what he loves. He also states "My father didn’t do what he loved"(Page 2), Marino explains that his father hated his job however he did it well anyways to support their family. Marino is showing that not everyone gets to pick a job that they love. Sometimes they might have to choose a job they hate, yet because it pays the bills they keep doing it. Marino uses anecdotes to appeal to the audience emotions which persuades them into believing his