Katie Couric The Best Advice I Ever Got, Part 24

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PART 4

BE UNREASONABLE

On Passion and Dreams

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
-- E.M. Forster

    Loving what you do is like winning the lottery. It means that on most mornings getting up and getting going is relatively easy. (Okay, maybe not every morning.) It means that you aren't leading Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, or trapped in an Edward Hopper painting, going through the motions in a sepia-toned fog, feeling isolated and despondent.
    Sometimes it takes a few tries to find your passion. At one time, I thought a career in advertising would be a perfect fit for me – glamorous and creative, like and updated version of Mad Men.
    So during my senior year at the University of Virginia I came to New York to interview with several agencies. It was a cold, rainy March day and the wind turned my umbrella inside out. I couldn't find a cab, had a terrible cold, and my mascara was dripping down my face. Interviewer after interviewer looked at me patiently and either told me there was nothing available or to consider going to business school. Finally, after the head of personnel for Grey Advertising said, in essence, “Don't call us, we'll call you.” I really impressed her. I started to cry. She suggested that I find a job closer to my parents. So much for my advertising career. Luckily the TV news thing worked out a bit better.