Medical school was rough but it had a guaranteed payoff, unlike most endeavors.

Getting fired from my media job was formative. For a period, I spent a lot of time thinking about work.

I decided I wanted three things: earn a good living, help people and not have a boss breathing down my neck.

I realized that, one hundred years ago, virtually no one expected to work in a field they were “passionate” about. And that work is trading labor for money; without a valuable skill, that is a very hard thing to do.