How Much Did They Pay You to Give Up on Your Dreams?
As children our futures seem so bright, brimming with opportunity and unending hope. We dream of one day being astronauts, professional athletes, doctors, nurses, or even President.
As we grow older society begins to shape and mold our thoughts and philosophies. We are told that we need to be more practical. That we need to aim for lower more “realistic” goals and ambitions. We are told that in order to be successful in life we need to go to school, get good grades, and then get a good job.
Soon we start to believe that our cherished dreams and ambitions were all just childish fantasies and that we really need to be more practical about our goals and purposes in life. So we enter college and decide upon “practical” degrees and courses of study. We choose programs designed to give us a chance at scoring a good job when we enter the work place. We work hard to keep a good grade point average (GPA) to give us the best shot at persuading a potential employer of the legitimacy of our candidacy.
Then graduation comes! Excited about our future we storm out into the world and begin playing the resume game, hoping to land our dream job or career. Some of us are even fortunate enough to land such positions right out of college. But for the rest of us we often find ourselves settling for the best job offer we can find. And in many cases this “best” offer isn’t close to what we had hoped for.
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