Passion: Pursuit of Passion (happyness)

What would you do if you made good money and had a respectable job and then realize it is not what you wanted to do? Would you drop everything to accomplish your goals? Would you be content and forget about your dreams? Life is about choices, and the choices we make define who we are. Chris made a choice to become a stock broker and then made the choices to pursue his dream. This is not Superhero story. It is a story about a man that made a choice to not give up.

Chris Gardner was 26 years old when he decided that becoming a doctor was not what he wanted and his current marriage that he was in was not the match he needed to be successful. He then began a relationship with another woman and had his first child. Then again, Chris was not happy with his situation, he wanted more out of life, he was hungry to find his passion and decided to pursue it once he found it. This attitude caused another strain on his new relationship.

One day while at work as a sales representative Chris ran into a gentlemen that was getting out of his Ferrari, Chris stopped and asked the man what he did. He replied " I am a Stock Broker" and from that point on Chris did whatever it took to become a stockbroker. He was accepted into a trainee program. But on the day of his training, he found out that his hiring manager was fired, to make matters worse, Gardner's relationship with Jackie was falling apart. She accused him of beating her — an accusation that Gardner denies to this day — and left him, taking their son with her to the east coast. He was taken to jail and a judge ordered that he stay there, for ten days, as punishment for being unable to pay $1,200 in parking tickets.

10 days later right after he was released Chris walked into Dean Witter Reynolds and landed the training program for the firm. Chris took the trainee position and was only paid a thousand dollars a month stipend. In 1982 he received his license and was recruited by Bear Sterns. But, the struggle was just beginning, his child's mother returned and left his son with him and he had to move out of his living conditions because they did not allow children. For a year he and his child were homeless, that did not stop Chris from pursuing his dreams. He finally saved money for a rental house in Berkeley, California and the rest is history. In 1987 Chris started his own brokerage firm and in 2006 he sold it in a multi-million dollar deal.

Chris Gardner's Passion has been identified.