If they were, we would all be losing money.
No, seriously. People often talk about careers the way romantic comedies talk about love: like someone sees a calculator across a crowded room and out of the blue is filled with a sense of beauty and wonderment and the knowledge that she is destined to be a CPA.
Some people feel “called” to careers. For the rest of us, it’s a work in progress, consisting of some variation on the following steps:
1) Doing Job X for a while.
2) Leaving Job X for whatever reason.
3) Seeing Job Y and saying, “Ooh! I can do that.”
4) Doing Job Y for a while.
…and repeating the process as often as necessary.
Now go get started on that.
And though you may not believe me, let me assure you: it will all be fine. And when that fine-ness happens, do a handspring and wave a mini American flag for yourself.
http://blog.brazencareerist.com/2012/05/14/your-graduation-pep-talk-i-feed-myself-and-so-can-you/
"He stepped down, trying not too look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via wingsforlashes)
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"I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books."
— C. S. Lewis (via amorette)
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"You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life."
— Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (via excessivebookshelf, excessivebookshelf) (via booklover, booklover)
"I spent a lot of years struggling with this, feeling like I was a bad person who was failing to integrate into society because I wasn’t playing by the rules. I tried very, very hard to be ‘better,’ but every time I did, I felt like I was giving up parts of myself. I felt, in fact, like the wants and desires of others were overriding my own autonomy and capacity for consent. If I answered an invasive question politely like I was ‘supposed’ to do, it made me feel like less of a human being. Because I apparently didn’t have the same rights over my own body that someone else did."
— Miss Manners Says: Autonomy for All! – this ain’t livin’ (via notemily)
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