seriously, though

I usually try to stay tactful at work, but the coworker I work late with is leaving in three weeks, so we’ve been a bit freer with our conversational topics lately. Last night we got talking about that stickiest of wickets: finding a job you love.

And we talked about how important loving your job is or isn’t, and whether or not loving just certain aspects of your job counted. (For instance, I love getting a steady paycheck and having dental benefits. Fiscal security is very important to me.) And I said, “I promise that if I ever find a job that makes me go ‘this is my life’s work and I want this’ then I will go after it.”

And my coworker said, “I don’t even know what that job would look like.”

Which was such a huge relief to me, actually, because I don’t either. And I had sort of wondered if everyone else just *knew* what they wanted to be when they grew up, and maybe I had just missed out somehow.

So, thank you, coworker, for setting my mind a bit more at ease!

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