piggy: I think there is a difference in what is perceived as a career. There is career and there is what you seem to term as a high-flying career. Being a dustman, or a researcher, or a player, or a lawyer, or a superstring theorist, these are all careers. But careers can change, evolve, as the person evolves and interests develop. Life and career can become one and the same thing (like someone who likes climbing mountains, or an explorer, and is lucky enough to do that as part of their career).
Some people are driven by a single minded pursuit in attainament of a specific goal, which is all good and well, but what is more important is the journey which led you there; to always change the goalposts so that there is something to look forward to, and to always appreciate the journey, even something as seemingly mundane, but perfectly out of ones control, as how incredible the moon looks, everchanging, and the etching of the clouds bathed in its light; the magpie alight in the lilac tree as I look up right now.
Maybe the trick is to not separate out life and career, but to embrace it all, complementing each other, all equally important. I tend to think people like catherine, volpone and myself are very lucky, to know what we want from life, and embrace it, and having so much fun (and moments of eeekiness, which just add to life) that the word career, although we do have a field in which we are interested, seems to not be relevant, it is more an ethos of life. (Catherine and volpone, if I have the wrong end of the stick here, please feel free to contradict!).
The word career means a running course across the sun or sky - now that I like :).
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I'd like to know if any who kinda know me can guess what I picked...
volpone: I think I know what you picked :)
piggy: I think there is a difference in what is perceived as a career. There is career and there is what you seem to term as a high-flying career. Being a dustman, or a researcher, or a player, or a lawyer, or a superstring theorist, these are all careers. But careers can change, evolve, as the person evolves and interests develop. Life and career can become one and the same thing (like someone who likes climbing mountains, or an explorer, and is lucky enough to do that as part of their career).
Some people are driven by a single minded pursuit in attainament of a specific goal, which is all good and well, but what is more important is the journey which led you there; to always change the goalposts so that there is something to look forward to, and to always appreciate the journey, even something as seemingly mundane, but perfectly out of ones control, as how incredible the moon looks, everchanging, and the etching of the clouds bathed in its light; the magpie alight in the lilac tree as I look up right now.
Maybe the trick is to not separate out life and career, but to embrace it all, complementing each other, all equally important. I tend to think people like catherine, volpone and myself are very lucky, to know what we want from life, and embrace it, and having so much fun (and moments of eeekiness, which just add to life) that the word career, although we do have a field in which we are interested, seems to not be relevant, it is more an ethos of life. (Catherine and volpone, if I have the wrong end of the stick here, please feel free to contradict!).
The word career means a running course across the sun or sky - now that I like :).
I think you have your finger on the pulse littlewolf.
Shall we all be curious experience junkies and knowledge seekers who try to be kind and make a difference until we are food for the worms?