Rodent Regatta

Jessica Grossman was twenty-eight. We arranged to meet the first time at a Starbucks, which became awkward quickly, because she needed to pause often while she wiped tears from her eyes. Twice she sobbed and curled up into a ball in her chair. I’m sure it looked like I was breaking up with her – the kind of tenderness between us, yet the necessary professional distance, would be easily misread. I was exceedingly grateful for her emotion, for her openness, because I was really just a stranger. I found her when scouting for doctors who had left medicine.

from Chapter 3 of What Should I Do With My Life

I’ve already mentioned Po Bronson’s new book and provided a few teasers from it. I notice that Bronson’s article for Fast Company magazine still sits at #3 on Daypop’s Top 40 this morning.

If you remain in the group who thinks somehow ”things” are going to return to the prosperity, opportunity and excess of the late 90’s, it’s time to read this book. The ”down days” of the last 24 months are not the aberration. The overblown days of the late 90’s were the aberration.

It’s time to find something from which you draw meaning, significance and joy. For some that will be a new or different job. For others it will be in relationships and their faith. For still others, complete career changes may be necessary.