Does a bear shit in the woods?

I am not sure if this type or line of questioning is considered sarcasm or rhetorical or both? There is so much BS online and at the conferences where so called whos who attend to deliver keynotes. Not sure what the key is or what it is I am supposed to note?

One of the favorite BS clichés typically from someone who got lucky selling his meaningless endeavor to a techie company is -

If you love what you do and do what you love - then you won’t have to work another day in you life.

To me this is like the 'does the bear shit' question.

So how are people supposed to do just that when a lot of our prescribed education is making templatized automatons walking out the university doors? More importantly they do not possess the life skills needed to actually go do a job.

The top performers are certainly eager to try new things and self starters and can find gainful employment but there is a whole raft in the middle of the bell curve that are going to be up shit creek. No job so no income or not enough to qualify for a romantic idea of the cliché anyway.

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