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Why This Path?
Exploring why this path is the right path and what that means.
Nobody has one single path they will take in their lifetime.
You will choose more than one path along the way. This occurs for multiple reasons.
At different times in your life, you’ll desire different things. What you desire as a child is likely not what you desire as a teen. The things you desire change as you grow and change.
When I started college, I wanted to work in professional theatre. Most of all, what I desired to do was direct and produce. But as I looked more closely at what living the theatre life involved, the desire faded.
Also, during college, I wanted to work in professional radio. I loved being a DJ on the college stations. Additionally, I handled production management and created PSAs and other recordings that went out all day. The college station was so popular in town that I developed minor celebrity status of a sort.
But when I couldn’t land a steady radio job in a low market in Upstate New York, I lacked the drive to go farther out into the boonies for work, too. This desire also faded.
In my 20s and into my mid-30s, I desired very much to be a father. However, I had some pretty massive commitment issues, and couldn’t get comfortable enough…
