{"text":"When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: 'Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here.' And my grandfather's response was: 'Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you.' It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.","author":"Jason Reitman","tags":["career","career-advice","career-counseling","career-path","career-paths","do-what-you-like","do-what-you-love","finding-joy","finding-one-s-path","finding-oneself","finding-your-way","finding-yourself","job","job-search","job-seeking"],"id":227810,"author_id":"Jason+Reitman"}