I’ll give you some advice to picking a career. There’s four things.

Number one, got to be mostly enjoyable — nothing in life is completely enjoyable. Number two, it has to be a worthy challenge — boredom will kill your brain. Number three, you have to have the reasonable expectation of success. Like me going into the NBA is probably not a good idea. And number four, the lowest one and the toughest one — it’s got to be good for people.

My advice to everybody is if you can do all four of those you wont even mind failing.

Steve Smith in an interview with Joe Pavich Jr. (2025)

Steve Smith is a comedian, Canadian, and most famous for The Red Green Show. I also remember him from Smith & Smith, a comedy show he performed with his wife before Red Green. It was also quite good.

I frequently lament my career choice. I hit maybe two of his four items, which doesn’t do me any good except to maybe prove my point that I should have been in a different line of work.

If wishes were horses, I guess.

Watch the entire interview on Youtube if you are so inclined (it’s mostly not career advice).