The Key to Success

Several weeks back, the New York Times published an article titled, “Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream?” As you can probably determine from the title, it is one of the seemingly-endless economic crisis articles that basically says that the lemonade to be made from this (large) financial lemon comes in the form of being able to pursue dreams that one could not previously pursue while holding down a full-time job.

Like many of you, my eyes tend to glaze over whenever another one of these articles appear, but this particular piece has stayed with me for two particular reasons…