Age is Irrelevant

What could you do as work for the rest of my life? Whether you’re fresh out of school or midway through life, you should never stop searching for your calling. A calling is fluid and can be discovered at any age. Once people have found their calling, it is not until after making many tough decisions and sacrifices in order to do the work they were meant to do.

Your calling is at the intersection of doing something you’re good at, something you feel appreciated at, and believing your work is making people’s lives better.

In order to find it, you have to shut out all the chatter of what your friends are telling you to do, what your parents are telling you to do, what society is telling you to do, and just go to that quiet innocent place inside you that knows the truth. But something new and radical is still almost always wrong. You need good, even great, reasons to ignore or deny general, public opinion. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Emily Pidgeon

Your calling can often be revealed out of difficult experiences and the struggle to have it will sift the debris to reveal what you hold dearest, solidifying what you hold at the highest of importance.

A calling often doesn’t come with and isn’t defined by a big paycheck. Payment does not validate nor belittle your calling. We’re talking about having a purpose and working on something that fills your soul’s bank account. Money is a big deal when it comes to security, but don’t let that become your key motivation. Money will come if you hone your craft and provide a great service.

Your calling is an ongoing process. Your calling is very different than the blood, sweat and tears of actually doing it. You don’t find your calling, you have to fight for it. Doing the work you’re meant to do is one of the most satisfying, remarkable experiences that a person can have, so never give up.

-Busy Brain