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I have not yet found my "calling" and I am 52 years old.
It has hurt me recently in job interviews where some really young person with several decades less experience tells me..."Mr. King it seems like you have bounced around a lot. That raises a red flag with me."
I think of asking them if they know how many job changes Thomas Edison or Einstien or Davey Crockett had ...but really it is not something they would grasp.
I have had some great experiences in many various jobs from teaching/coaching to medical sales to working in a psych hospital, to oilfield drilling rig jobs and driving trucks and on and on and I figure my kids can always look and say..."well he always did whatever it took to put beans on the table." It used to bother me but if you look at the guys in the Bible some were fishermen who quit to do something else, carpenters, tax collectors, zealot militia men, and doctors who changed course somewhere along the way.
I figure you just suit up every day and report for duty and see what happens.
(of course this goes against every success book you will ever read but ...
success isn't really my area of expertise)
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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
"No matter how far a man goes, he eventually finds out God's already there." John Wayne - the last line in "Chisum"
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