Don’t Defer Your Dreams —You Will Forget Who You Are
How choosing a career not aligned with our core beliefs can change us for the worst
People will do just about anything for money. But how much money would someone have to pay you to give up on your dreams?
You may not realize it, but certain decisions you make can change you fundamentally as you progress through life.
Your choice of career can be one of them.
Most of us grow up with a dream job. It usually doesn’t take long before we realize that firefighter or astronaut isn’t ideal for many reasons. But we often continue to pursue careers with an amorphous goal to help people, whatever that means to us.
We write about it in college application essays, we talk about it in job interviews, we try to convince friends and family that we’re aspiring to do important work. But, somewhere along the line, we make a series of decisions that compromise our grand vision for how we imagined the world and where we saw ourselves in it.
And most of us don’t end up picking careers that best serve the world.
I may be wrong, but I’m guessing that no child dreams of becoming a hedge fund manager or a consultant.
