Why it’s perfectly normal (and good, even) to question what you do for a living

Think of your uncertainty as an opportunity, not a crisis.

When my daughter was 2 years old, she declared she was going to be a doctor. At first, I chalked it up to toddler enthusiasm, but as the years passed, her certainty never wavered. At 7, she is still as sure as ever. Watching her confidence in her future is both heartwarming and, if I’m honest, a little bewildering, because I never had that kind of clarity. While some people seem to know their path from the start, I didn’t fully understand what I wanted to do with my life until I was almost 40.