Finding Your Calling, Without Changing Your Job (Devotional)

Calling is not a job title. It’s how you think about your purpose at work.

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Excerpt:

I used to think “calling” meant finding the picture-perfect job. Before I entered the working world, I thought the perfect job would have to be either something really creative, like a trend spotter for a luxury fashion brand, or something really self-sacrificing, like a vaccination specialist in a war-torn country. My task in finding my calling was to keep an eye out for the one job that was either extremely cool, or overwhelmingly benevolent, and also matched my unique set of skills and gifts perfectly.

So, you can imagine my disappointment at 25 years old when I graduated from my MBA program, all fired up to find my calling, and the only job I could get was in the customer support division of a huge, faceless, IT services provider. There, eyes wide and full of promise, I spent my days scrubbing data reports, fixing the code of html emails, and shuffling between endless PowerPoint meetings.

I started to ask myself: “Did I miss my calling?”

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