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Ok - so here's the poll for the week. Feel free to post comments with your bits of wisdom and guidance. Or just babble incoherently and share your thoughts. Whatever. It's all good.
What do those rare individuals who actually don't know what they want to do with their life from the age of 5 (ha!) do when they finally do figure out a "calling" for themselves that is motivating, exciting and inspiring but somehow they keep being asked or invited to do work that is WAY off that path?
Too cryptic?
Here's a hypothetical example. Let's say you go through college with some small voice or "knowing" that keeps reminding you that you love to cook. And in fact, you are actually pretty good in the kitchen. Anything you cook or bake is just amazingly delicious. You have a real knack for it. So, you graduate from culinary school with an advanced degree and start looking for a job as a chef. You start getting all these job offers right and left - BUT none of them are for chefs. In fact, all the offers you keep getting are positions in widget-making, in which you have some skill but not a great deal of proficiency. So, there is one position in particular that you accept because it would benefit a developing country in dire need of widgets and this speaks to your altruistic side. But somehow, no matter how hard you try, it just doesn't click for you.
So what do you do? Now taking calls - operators are standing by.
Comments
naz, so true. and you know what i believe in my heart of hearts to be my dream job? being a mother. no progress on that yet though. i think it will take a little more than prayers. :)
Posted by: delara | May 15, 2003 09:37 PM
you keep making widgets and try to do it in a spirit of service, but you also actively keep looking and praying for your dream job; you define it, visualize it, pray for it, and manifest it
Posted by: Nazy | May 14, 2003 12:49 PM
Well you're just keeping the widget-making seat warm until they surface :)
Posted by: lacey | May 13, 2003 05:09 PM
No only that, but what if making widgets is actually not what you're supposed to be doing at all? You know, like if that's really someone else's dream job, and you're just taking up their space.
Posted by: delara | May 12, 2003 12:54 PM
So widget making is your day job, and by night you turn to your dream job for fun. But I guess the question is: what if your dream job doesn't run at night?
Posted by: lacey | May 12, 2003 12:27 PM