In 1936 Orson Welles staged an all black production of Macbeth in Harlem, a groundbreaking endeavour for the time. The play, which became known as "Voodoo Macbeth" was so popular that the crowds on opening night stretched for more than five blocks. Welles called it his life's greatest achievement.

I don't believe in chiding people, but it's solid advice to tell someone who may be putting themselves into decades of debt, to go into a field that allows them to pay it off and live a decent life.

There's also a misconception that you have to study your passion to do anything with it. I have a very very comfortable tech job for one of the largest companies in the world. My passion is helping kids. Particularly poor, black kids, bridge the educational, professional and social gaps.

Me at 25, with a high earning job allows to me to fulfill that passion in a way that being social worker could not. I can tangibly rent out rooms for these workshops. I can be example for these kids who have never been told that tech or STEM fields was a way out Because it's different to get taught by a young black man in Jordan's who listens to the same type of music. I have 3 past job experiences of myself or people I can bring in to lead coding classes, data, business and UX design be able to do that shit if I wasn't in tech.

I can tangibly provide the programs and some of the equipment necessary to help these kids at no cost to them because I make a lot. If I had followed my passion of "coaching" or "mentoring" I'd be in high schools giving people talks to kids who need tangible ways out, not just someone to believe in them. I wouldn't be able to help them. I wouldn't have a background in tech or connections to really do so.

So yeah, follow your passions, but you're making a shit decision if you take out 50K in loans to get a music degree when you can just make your minor or get a certificate to go along with a higher paying job.

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