{"id":2219,"date":"2022-08-12T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"career-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"CAREER DREAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">Relentless blogger and author of <i>Atomic Habits<\/i>, James Clear has these questions for those who are looking to start a career or change jobs:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\"><i>What career would you realistically pursue if you wanted the most money?<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\"><i>What career would you realistically pursue if you wanted the biggest impact?<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\"><i>What career would you realistically pursue if you wanted to have the most fun?<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\"><i>What career offers the best mix?<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">Those are three interesting lenses through which to consider a career choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">The qualifying word &#8220;realistically&#8221; needs to be given careful consideration; skills and personality traits will definitely narrow the scope of possibilities for each individual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">But Clear&#8217;s questions got me thinking about my own career choices. In my case, impact and enjoyment have always played much larger roles than making money. But as I grow older, I am starting to question the wisdom of my tendency <i>always <\/i>to downplay and even neglect questions of income!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I can&#8217;t complain &#8211; I and my family have never been destitute. Far from it. God has always provided what we need (sometimes quite miraculously) and I have no reason to doubt that He will continue to do so. And I would not trade our years in Haiti for the income we sacrificed to do it. We have no regrets.\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">Still, if I were able to make some extra money some day, I have two dreams &#8211; and neither involves\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">a bigger house or a slicker car<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">1) Taking my wife and kids on a 2 or 3 week vacation to Europe. (Before the kids all scatter for good. Or they start finding spouses and having their own kids &#8211; which is only going to raise the price of the trip. \ud83d\ude09)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">2) Being asked to make a donation toward some Kingdom cause and being able to pull out my checkbook and ask, &#8220;Would $10,000 suffice or do you need more?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relentless blogger and author of Atomic Habits, James Clear has these questions for those who are looking to start a career or change jobs: Those are three interesting lenses through which to consider a career choice.\u00a0 The qualifying word &#8220;realistically&#8221; needs to be given careful consideration; skills and personality traits will definitely narrow the scope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}