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Career and Calling
I’m still fighting the battle between career and calling. I do not want to have my job define who I am, i.e. I do not want to have my identity so closely integrated with what I do for money. This is tough when you are expected to give 110% at work which you sometimes only feel partially invested in. The majority of your waking hours are at work, solving problems at work, etc. and when you get home you have a few hours to do some stuff here and there, work out, eat with family, write and read a little bit, watch a little TV, etc. But most of my creating is done between the hours of 8-5, at work. I measure the value of my work by how many and how deeply people will be effected by my contribution. On that scale, I often feel like my work is next to inconsequential.
