J-O-T What?!

I started my internship with the Journal of Ordinary Thought near the University of Chicago campus! Even though I didn't do a whole lot today, I did, however, go through the entire website (twice) because it was just re-done and a bunch of apostrophes were missing, and I needed to check for other things that may be wrong with the site as well. It didn't take too much time, and then I was off to read through the manuscript of the next edition of the journal they're putting out sometime in the very near future! All very exciting (as I am a word nerd of sorts). And to top it off, the three women--Carrie, Rupal, and Mairead--are wonderful. I've never met a group of the most welcoming women in my life. It made me really happy to know they really do want to get to know me, and immerse me into this magazine.

I may have actually made the correct career decision people!

I've always been intrigued as to why certain people gravitate toward certain jobs, and bolt from others. What is it that, early in their lives, made them more prone to deviating one way or another? Is it really just a right brain/left brain thing? Familial influences? Societal? Cultural? A mixture of all of these? Who's to say we aren't destined for a certain career path from the day we are born?

But then there are those (maybe even the vast majority of society) who never truly find that career that fulfills the hopes and dreams they may have possessed sometime during their early lives. In fact, I'd argue that more often than not, our society is filled with individuals who are completely unfulfilled with their current job, but somehow never decide to take that jump and risk everything to find something different. Something better. Is it because of the security? Probably. But is that security really worth a lifetime of unhappiness with your job (which fills up most of your adult life)? Maybe, but this makes me uneasy.

Considering I am just getting my feet wet in the work realm, I don't have enough experience to say. I have a lifetime to figure out these answers, though no matter what, my answers will always differ from another. That's just how life is.