More musings on success

Following yesterday's musings on the nature of 'success', I was reflecting on the notion that most of the 'successful' stand-up comics that I know want to work in television. The frisson that goes around a room at the Edinburgh Festival when the guy from Tiger Aspect arrives is almost palpable. And everyone I've met who started an advertising agency or research firm has some unformed fantasy about the day that WPP buys them out.

This question occurs: -

Isn't a successful career just one where you do what you love until you don't have to do it any more?