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When Does Persistence Pay Off?
Persistence is the best way to choose, follow, and stay on any given path.
During and after college I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. There were a few vague ideas, even some thoughts of pursuing my degree program achievements.
Use my major and get a job in theatre? That never panned out. My one, very brief gig in semi-professional theatre was a month of annoyance, irritability, and no fun.
Use my minor and get a gig in radio? I couldn’t land a job in the Ithaca market, which is a pretty low-ranked market. And I was unwilling to relocate to a middle-of-nowhere, even lower market, to pursue that.
Make use of my other minor in art history? I considered more than once going back to school to complete an education program or acquire another degree so that I could teach. But I never worked up the get-up-and-go or general motivation for that.
So, I bounced from job to job, no career idea plan and no ambition to rise up to the next level.
Then one day I got hit by a car crossing a street and spent the next year of my life recovering from the injuries. Yet that was not just a physical recovery — I began to develop the basis for my Pathwalking philosophy and working with conscious reality creation.
