How do Some People Stay Happy When They “Settle for Less” than Their Dream Jobs?
5 min readAug 27, 2020
I’ll be the first to admit it: I didn’t do a great job of having a “career.” For the first 50 years of my life, one could say my career had me. At 40, I woke up from my previous night’s birthday celebration and realized I was still working in restaurants and partying every night.