From What Should I Do With My Life by Po Bronson: "They did not find some Single Perfect Answer to the question; at some point it felt right enough that they made their choice, and the energy formerly spent casting about was now devoted to making their choice fruitful for as long as it might last."
That's the experience I had 20 years ago. I was casting about, jobhunting. When I finally found a job, it was such a relief to just sit down and live. But now for years I have been casting again. I've been jobhunting, but also, I'm casting with my activities. I have the urge to join things right and left, even though I am doing too many things. I want to just settle. To make choices about my activities, to do few enough that I can really get involved in one, and develop in that area. Instead, I can't quite put enough time into any of them, so I don't get what I want out of any of them.
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