Better question, what did your parents want you to be?
A doctor? A lawyer?
Did they ever say, “I want you to play guitar and sing rock-n-roll?”
Mine neither.
Jimmy Buffett’s parents wanted him to be a priest, or to have a military career.
While in college, he learned to play guitar. And the rest is history.
But Jimmy Buffett is not just playing guitar in a band. He has transformed his self-confessed mediocre musical abilities into a multi-million dollar industry.
Look at his entry at Wikipedia. It lists him as “Singer/songwriter, author, restaurant and bar owner, minor league baseball team owner.”
Not bad for a hard-drinking, pot-smoking kid from Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Referencing the above photo, in 2009 National Lampoon ranked Jimmy Buffett at #52 among the "90 Greatest Mustaches of All Time".
And he still manages to tour 20-30 dates per year.
In fact, he personally clears more than $100 million per year.
The moral to the story, children, is this:
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
- Henry David Thoreau
