Adding comments while reading: > Most of us, in fact, don't really know what we want to do with our working lives until we're more or less doing it. I can rel

Adding comments while reading: > Most of us, in fact, don't really know what we want to do with our working lives until we're more or less doing it. I can relate. Approaching 40 and I still change the definition of what I "want to do" from time to time. This in part results from my childhood experience in which my parents make important judgements, in part results from my own weakness (not perseverant enough and always back down when boredom and/or difficulty strike). Basically I find myself distracted by all sorts of things (game dev? cool! reverse engineering? cool! embedded system? cool! writing an interpreter? cool!) but only scratching the surface for all of them. Yes it might be OK because they are just hobbies, and I can do whatever I want with hobbies, but deep in my heart I still admire those who can drill deep even for hobbies. > What we're really talking about is the aim or goal of your career. Actually I believe there is one thing that is potentially more important: How do we plan the end of our philosophical life? That is, when do we be content enough and say to ourselves: "OK if I die now, I can at least say that I have done something this life and did not waste all of my time". Reflecting on that, I have to say that if I were to die now, I probably believe that all of my life is wasted. Against this is just personal and everyone has one's own version of "wasted". ******* Overall I think this is a well written piece, but the hard-core question is: Do you know yourself?