Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on ""Do what you find fun" is bad advice for beginners: the beginning is NOT fun!" video.

  1. Self-motivation, persistence, disposition and endurance. Not giving up too soon, changing strategies when needed, seeking external help. And then, knowing when to give up if it's looking fruitless. Fun is what you get at the end of this road, at least professionally. This is particularly a huge problem with career fairs/expo and showcases for students, and lots of motivational speeches. Showing only good examples, success cases, and celebrities of the area instead of talking about all the crap you have to go through to make it. And the crap you'll be stuck with if you never get to be an iconic professional in your particular field. Also a problem with jobs that are not well understood by the general population. Focus shouldn't be on what you can achieve once you are a well estabilished successful professional in the area, but rather the process which you have to go through while trying to get there, plus more regular professional cases you'll commonly encounter. Career advices shouldn't be based on superstar achievements, but rather on what most of the people who have jobs on that career have to work with. It's a way clearer picture that should help people understanding jobs better. Then it really becomes a well balanced choice and a real pursuit. We all have more patience to learn certain things more than others, more resistance to failure on some stuff rather than others, so you'll balance your ability and patience to persist through failure and long hours of learning to achieve a desireable position in the end. I know I will never have the patience to go through some board repairs that Louis and Jessa go through... some stuff are plain torture to me. :P I love to watch, but I wouldn't have the patience to work with it. But I do have the patience to write long comments no one will read, keep learning and trying to do stuff around video editing, computer repair, and read through tons and tons of posts in a daily basis writing my own thoughts about it afterwards... probaly why I ended up in Computer Science and then Journalism afterwards. :P One important thing on Louis' video though: keep learning new stuff. Or sometimes, return to stuff you've abandoned previously. Sometimes we need new perspectives to find new appreciation for things we ignored early on.
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