"If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it."
When I graduated from college, I wanted to be a writer. It took me four years to find employment as a writer. My first job was writing policy and procedural manuals for a nursing home company. I was very frustrated in those early years because I could only spend an hour or so every day writing poetry. I wanted to be a full time writer of novels and poetry. When I turned fifty, I realized that I had been writing my whole life and that I was a writer. I may not be rich or famous or able to spend all day writing, but I still had written thousands of poems. I believe that in the end we all end up doing what we are supposed to do. At 61 I have spent 35 years working in health care and I know in my heart that is where I am supposed to be. Yes, I am a writer. I am a speaker. And I touch people's lives. So my advice to others is not to worry if you are not doing what you think you should be doing. In the end we all do what we should do. Pam Shaw, the author of the quote, was a school teacher before she became a top salesperson at Mary Kay Cosmetics. I would change the quote to read: Whether you are doing what you think you want or not, you are doing what you are supposed to be doing.
