find work I'm passionate about

I’ve actually made this my New Year’s Resolution. That doesn’t mean I want to quit or change my job this year… but it does mean that I want to do some serious thinking and investigating this year about finding the perfect job for me.

I’ve recently started reading “Julie and Julia”, a lovely book about a woman who decides to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking over the course of a year.

The beginning of “Julie and Julia” talks about how the author is struggling with a feeling of aimlessness, giving up on her dream of being an actress and accepting that she was a secretary, and a feeling of… sadness and lethargy. Kind of swirling around and down and starting to cry for no apparent reason in subways.

The description was unexpectedly resonant. It gave me pause. I felt like the book was describing me, perhaps several years down the line. It made me feel like my life is on hold. That I am waiting for my life to degenerate, waiting to be the character in my own book, waiting for my novel to start. Waiting for my life to change.