Being able to choose your career is a very modern phenomenon.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS. PICTURE: Liane Metzler/Unsplash
For most of human history few people got to choose their occupation, their station in life, or even their life partner.
But they did have one choice – they could be happy about the hand they were dealt, or they could kick against the goads.
Most of them choose to work hard, do good, and make the most out of life, and most of them did. (I’m not saying it was easy!)
Meanwhile we, who have it easy, are paralysed by career choice. We agonise over it, worrying that the right career is the secret to happiness.
While the right career might help our happiness, for the most part it is still the other choice that is most important: To make the best of it, or begrudge your situation.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
