“It is this life-long search for, and journey toward, meaning, that lies beneath all the surface changes we make in our jobs, occupations, job-titles, and careers during our lifetime. We want our work—increasingly—to reflect who we most truly are.” ~ Richard Nelson Bolles, The 1993 What Color Is Your Parachute? … As some of you may […]
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There’s an anecdote of me as a child, that my mother used to tell me about over and over again. She said that when I was about 5 y.o., she and my father were watching me work on a coloring book. They were instructing me which colors to use (e.g. green for the leaves, blue […]
I am leaving teaching soon, and it is not to say I don’t love it anymore. I have loved teaching since Day One of entering the classroom, with a hand holding a broken piece of chalk and a heart full of fire, and now three years later, I still do. To say I don’t love […]
It is time to turn the page. Today, I started work with an organization helping children who have been abused, orphaned, or exploited. I am tasked to help manage the psychological care for these kids, who currently number to a little over a hundred. Naturally, I am terrified. As you may know, I have been […]
A couple of days ago, I encountered several articles asserting that it’s high time we stop hounding today’s worker with the “Do what you love” (DWYL) campaign. Rather than aspire for a career life that would allow us to do what we love such that we can combine passion and work, some argue that we […]
Dear Journal (August 14, 2005) “Memories, for me, are precious. That’s why I have you, in the first place.” … … I started keeping a journal as I was just about to turn 15. Now, nine years later, I flip back to the pages written by that 15-year-old girl, and I am all at once […]
These days I’ve been encountering more triggers for derailment than glowing road signs saying “Yes darling, you’re on the right path, and you’re getting free lemonade every 5 meters.” However, even from the very beginning, I had been well aware that this was going to be anything but the yellow brick road. I had prepared […]
“Friend, there will probably never be a right time. Conditions will always be difficult. Obstacles will always be in your way, which you must overcome. It will always be a challenge, if you decide to launch out into the deep and mysterious destiny to which you feel called, by the dreams of your soul.” — […]
There was a time, not too long ago, when I couldn’t have imagined calling myself a writer—and by “writer,” I mean the kind that gets paid to do work that’s actually published in print and credited through a byline. During that time, I did write, but I only wrote either for personal reasons (in a […]
