1/9/05: Life is your career. Choose it well.

Who says you have to have one profession? Why do most people pick one profession and stick with it until the day they die, no matter how miserable they are? So what if you've spent the last 8 years in medical school and the last 10 years building up your practice?  Are you fulfilled? If you have been miserable for the past 18 years because you picked the "wrong" profession, how much longer do you choose to be miserable? Another 18 years?

If you are driving cross country and found out that you took the wrong highway, wouldn't you turn around? Or perhaps you would find another route to get where you want to go.

Or would you simply stay on the wrong highway and keep driving until you run out of gas?

If you are miserable on the road you have taken, then take another one. It is never too late to choose a different path.

I know someone who was once a doctor, then became a preacher, then became a Buddhist monk, then became a home developer. And now he is working at Kmart greeting people as they walk in the door. And guess what? He is the happiest 80 year old man I know!