http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/your-money/the-painful-but-liberating-lessons-of-a-career-failure.html?_r=0
The second is from the Onion, so it's satire, but like all good satire it has an element of truth: "Find the Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights and Weekends for the Rest of Your Life."
http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionate-about-then-do,31742/
BTW, my band, Happyville, is playing at The Celt on Saturday night.