Making your passion your career choice is neither a guarantee nor the ultimate goal. Here's one way to validate it...

These students have a passion that makes their professional goal obvious and assumed, and this question isn’t an issue—except...

Often, they come to me first for problems related to organization or motivation.

The most recent example: he was passionate about robotics. Fine.

He found it interesting. Great.
The parents thought: a promising, stimulating, and lucrative career.

Everyone was happy.

But by quickly questioning his choice and digging into his lack of motivation, it became clear that there was no scaffolding behind it, no deep reflection to support this choice.

And this situation is sadly consistent among those who turn their passion into a career.

The issue is that both the teenager and the parents focus on a projection tied to the passion or a major interest, with preconceived notions.

For the parent, knowing their child has abilities, a passion, and a goal means everything is going well.

The mistake is here.
It works "for now." And given his lack of motivation, something needs to be addressed.

A solution:
Guide them to question their envisioned profession. Identify an element and suggest careers they hadn’t considered.

For example: "What exactly do you like about robotics?"

Answer: "New technologies."

Opening: "In aerospace as well, new technologies are being developed. What do you think about that?"

And then, you end with: "You should think about it, and we’ll talk about it again..."

And of course, a few days later, you bring it up again.