The tension between the near impossibility of working in a particular calling or vocation across the course of a lifetime and the ideology that finding one’s particular calling is central to achieving salvation (or even this-worldly happiness) is mitigated in two ways: first, an increased emphasis on working on the self, and second, the ideal that

For me, it has been disorienting to spend most of my time writing without any promise of monetary rewards after a decade of getting paid for every single hour I worked.

that the conventional wisdom on career success—follow your passion—is seriously