We've heard this question hundreds of times from parents, teachers, principles, friends, relatives, career counselors, even the mailman. Not only do they ask that pestering question, but they provide their own answers.

"You should be a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, a teacher. Go to grad school, go to med school. Get your MBA. Go into finance. Investments! Investments are where it's at!" All these might be good ideas, but they weren't ours.

We call all those misguided opinions "the noise." It's the noise of society trying to push, pull, and tug us Ð tug you Ð in every direction. The noise never listens to what you like and what you don't. The noise doesn't care about what you value. The noise just distracts you from building a life that's in tune with what you're passionate about as an individual.

The noise says, "You can't make money playing with model spaceships." Dennis Muren didn't listen to it. Now he has eight Academy Awards for visual effects, including one for Star Wars.

The noise says, "There's no future dressing up your friends." Arianne Phillips didn't listen to it. She became the head stylist for Madonna and costume designer on films such as Walk the Line.

You can create roads that you'll be passionate about while also making a living. You don't have to be a prisoner to a job you can't stand. You have the potential to embark on a life that you can one day look back on and say, "I was true to myself every step of the way."

The noise was, and is, after us. We're right there with you. How did we fight it? We took a roadtrip.

Sitting around our college apartment one night, we were hanging out, talking about what we were going to do with our lives. We were frustrated. Graduation loomed and we had no clue about what we really wanted out of life.

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