THIS WAS THE VERY FIRST POSTING TO http://frogbook.hampshire.edu – I like being the first 😀 I saw it listed in the Alumni Mag, which I normally don’t read. This time I did. #yay 🙂
Searching for “The Career” can be a daunting task. It feels as if it’s THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
It can be.
But it doesn’t have to be.
When facing a difficult decision about a career path, ask yourself, “Is this a Vocation or an Advocation?”
In short, is it more important to make money at this, or is this your mission in life?
Can you pursue this in your spare time?
There’s a bit of a myth that the two need to be merged together into one. But what you do to make money does not have to be DIRECTLY related to your life goals and hopes and dreams and ambitions.
You can utilize your strengths THROUGH whatever it is that gets you paid.
Then you can pursue the more nerdy sides of your advocation in your off-time. You can even launch that into a side business which may end up taking off as a full time career itself!
But… that’s the carrot of the American Dream that dangles in front of us all.
Being able to “split” the two; vocation and advocation, money maker and passionate pursuit helps take the stress and pressure off of THE PERFECT CAREER.
And.. you may never get rich off of the things you advocate. Maybe you will. But by NOT mixing “business and pleasure” immediately… you’re free to keep the sense of purity to the mission, which may get tainted as money, politics, middle school mean girl gossip style backstabbing, greediness and all of the things you fear about money.
It’s all real possibilities. You have to be very strong to ride two horses at once. Strong in unexpected ways.
You can achieve anything. You may not be able to manifest it in this three-dimensional plane, but you *can* achieve anything. You may have simply have to modify the context in which it takes place.
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