Rhetorical Analysis Of How To Do What You Love

Has anyone ever questioned what contributes to pure happiness? While growing up, children are known to ask questions. The idea of the career they might want to pursue once out of school soon starts to change while reality comes into play. Paul Graham, the author of “How To Do What You Love” (2006), started writing and publishing in 2001. By 2015, he accomplished over 30 million views on his website where he posts all of his essays for readers to view. In “How To Do What You Love”, Graham discusses whether a job is worth attending to every day, then he continues on about the different influences that may lead a person to settle for a job that provides a decent income. He also encourages the reader to think about what they love and if they can do what they love while earning money for doing so. Graham uses many specific examples to help illustrate an encouraging and supportive tone. Money is told to be important to those who thrive for the financial stability. For the first example, Graham starts to discuss the possibilities of how money can be dangerous to a person. He then discusses how parents and society can encourage a young person to find a job that will provide them with a big salary even

Children are encouraged to follow in their parent’s footsteps. The second example that Graham shares with the reader consist of the different influences in a kid’s life. A quote from the essay states, “If you take a boring job to give your family a high standard of living, as so many people do, you risk infecting your kids with the idea that work is boring” (Graham). Schools, parents and even other peers can highly influence a young adult to settle for a job. Parents coming home every night from work with nothing exciting during their day to talk about while schools are bringing in speakers to talk about what they do every day for their job can influence a person to believe that a job is meant to be