Your "Calling"

[BrokenQuill92]

I don't think I've found my calling yet

[rexbeccarox]

I have dealt with plenty of martyrs. They are dumb! Wiped out by their ignorance of warfare. Glory does not come from death. Only suffering for those exploited by it.

You should strive to improve your situation and provide society with something tangible. Egos and Pride are the worse attributes for martyrdom.

I am starting my own business this summer with four coworkers!

That's exciting! Congratulations!

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I don't think I've found my calling yet

It's ok. I've got years on you, and neither have I.

[Angrboda]

I don't think I've found my calling yet

When I was younger, everybody told me my calling was in computers. Yeah, I'm good at it, and I enjoy it, but it's not really my center.

I'm not fundamentally someone who finds interest in the practical. I need to be breaking down barriers, extending the limits, out in the ozone. Computers just isn't that, unless you do purely theoretical work, and there are extremely few jobs in that. So computers have never been the warp and woof of my dreams.

I pursued other dreams when I was younger. I have a talent for mathematics. I dabbled in philosophy, and activism as a radical feminist. I spent a few years studying international business and management. I spent two years becoming fluent in French on my own dime. And I've been fascinated by psychology my whole life, both abnormal psych and the subject of cognitive bias. I consider cognitive science and philosophy of mind my specialty.

I've had a lot of interests over the course of a lifetime. I think, perhaps, it's especially difficult when you're young to identify that one thing that really excites you and can give you deep satisfaction over the course of a lifetime. When you're young, everything seems exciting, but the future is completely uncertain. What will I like in ten years? What will make me happy 20 years from now? Where is a good place to be next year? Five years from now? 50 years from now?

Like Kichi, who I am has only clarified itself in hindsight.

I spent time doing philosophy, but never identified it as my special thing, which it is. Nor did I guess that I would care less about what I was doing than where I'd be doing it.

Figuring those things out when you're young, is, I think, very hard. It was for me. And yet we expect it of you, like it would be nothing at all for you to figure it out.

[jumbojak]

Right now it looks like I'm being pulled either into union organizing or shift management at a crappy chain restaurant. Choices, choices, choices....

*raising hand
Oh! Oh! I know this one! Isn't it obvious???



Burger King? What?

No, it's not fast food. It's a chain steakhouse which shall not be named; we're not technically allowed to talk about work unless it's to say something positive. Hence the possible union organization.

[houseofcantor]

On September of 2008, my Gwynnies turned 36, and I condensed the million word book of gwynnite into a paragraph of tao. Standing in my living room, thinking, ain't no better job than prophet of god.

Five years and some later...
remembering a memory i never had
is the best idea I ever had.

[ElleBelle]

I think my calling is working with preteens with hearing problems and educating them.

And maybe eating junk food.

[houseofcantor]

And maybe eating junk food.

Here I am, thinking that's more of a culling.

[Shaggy]

The only thing I've ever taken to naturally and has really given me joy has been being a dad. That's the only thing that comes to mind.

[c172]

I don't have a calling. Even soccer fandom, which I know most folks know me by. Except the soccer fans on Twitter, who must go cross country to 6 U.S. Women's matches per year, and must memorize all the stats of the past three seasons for all these chats on Twitter.

Nope, I'm multifaceted. I like soccer, gymnastics, sailing, auto racing, and fleetingly other olympic sports. I listen to jazz, indie, and drone. I like a good movie, if I can actually go out to it. I enjoy travel if it is connected to an aforementioned interest.

I was a library assistant in Vermont. I was a slammer in San Diego. I was a supermarket worker in Pennsylvania.

I donate to cystic fibrosis and public radio.

I know little about lots, rather than lots about little.

[Tripwire]

End religion.