Content written by Jeff Schmittnd published by Poets&Quants
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Extracted Content: A generation ago, experts would urge you to enter law, banking, or medicine. These were “safe” fields, respectable and high-paying, immune to grim business cycles. If you washed out, there was always a safety net in insurance, real estate, or “plastics.”
Follow your passion? Make a difference? Live a life of purpose? That’s why you have the Peace Corps or Teach for America, people would quip. In those cases, you’d drop out for a few years, pursue your ideals, and then return to the fold. Perfectly acceptable. Of course, that model has flipped now. Today’s experts champion embracing discomfort, taking risks, and living authentically. Call it what you will: balance, mission, or fulfillment. When you set out on a career, you expect something deeper than phat paychecks and parental approval.