I agree with you as well. As simple as your advice is, there is always external pressures that keep you from doing the work you enjoy. There are social and cultural pressures that is like fighting a riptide -- the want of material posessions, the pressure of debt, the pressure of social status, parental (mis)guidance, and more. Sometimes having a good work ethic works against you, because when you really start to enjoy the work, it begins to feel like play, and you resent yourself for being a slacker in your subconscious.

If only things were as simple to allow everyone to do what pleased them.

Calvin