A buddy wants to switch careers.
She has been taking evening courses
to prepare for this.
This semester,
she didn’t have the funds
to pay for these courses.
She told me
she’d take the semester off
and do other things.
None of these ‘other things’
have anything to do
with the career
she’s hoping
to, one day,
enjoy.
Which is a HUGE sign
that it is likely
NOT the career
she should be
going into.
Someone truly excited
about a field
would be using their spare time
to take free online courses
or do volunteer work
in that field
or mirror experts
in the field
or do a gazillion other things
that would make her the best
in that field.
If you wouldn’t allocate
at least a portion
of your spare time
to a task.
you might not want
to make that task
your core job.