We sometimes confuse our personal end point with resistance. If you are close to an end point that feels like a good stopping place to you, then push through, feel that sense of accomplishment, and say goodbye. If I had become a lawyer and then quit a few years into it, people would have made the same exact comment: what a waste of time, energy, and money.ĭon’t let other people’s expectations push you into a career you don’t want. At that point, I would have felt tremendous pressure to become a lawyer. But if I had taken the bar and then quit, some people would have thought I was crazy for doing all that hard work only to never practice law. For instance, some people thought I was crazy to get my degree and then never take the bar exam. Keep in mind that there are often multiple finish lines, and once you reach one, another will appear. I also found ways of making my remaining time in the program more fun.
I wanted the sense of accomplishment, even if it made no difference from a career perspective. If the program were any longer, I might have dropped out, but something inside made me stick with it. In the situation described above, I had made it through nearly two and a half years, and had one more year to go. If your project has a natural end point, and you are fairly close to reaching it, you might want to hold on a little longer. Here are three scenarios in which you might think twice about jumping ship: 1. I usually encourage multipotentialites to leave projects behind if they’re no longer feeling them, but there are times when not quitting is the right thing to do. Instead, I took the very NON-multipotentialite course of action and stuck it out. It was also becoming clear to me that I didn’t want to pursue a career as a lawyer. The dull, corporate classes were making me want to chop my fingers off. However, by the time my third year rolled around, I was losing interest in law. It was challenging, interesting, and dramatic. The first year of law school was exciting.
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