[CliffFletcher]

You always get two groups of people talking past each other in these discussions: one group who talk about what an individual person could do, and other talking about the way things actually turn out collectively.

Telling people to follow their dreams is all well and good, but what happens when you have a massive glut of professional chefs? They get paid like crap, and wake up one day to realise that their dream job makes it almost impossible to raise a family (which may be another aspiration). On the other hand, nobody dreams of working a support desk for a telecom, washing dishes at East Side Mario's, or fishing tampons out of plugged toilets. And yet somebody needs to do that work.