Neal's Workshop

And now a departure from the socio-economic-political themed posts of late.

Figuring out what you want to do with your life is difficult. Extremely painful. Oh, and time-consuming. Is it even possible?

I've been out of school now for almost three years. In that time, I worked for a little over a year doing audit at one of the "Big Four" (Now there's an axis of evil) before I came to terms with my hatred of auditwork. I left. Since that time, I've spent a little over a year and a half at my current place of work doing a mixture of financial and cost accounting, project analysis, accounting research and financial valuation/modeling. I spoke last week about when Mediocrity is Policy (MiP). As alluded to in MiP, I've realized for awhile now that corporate life is bullshit, and now I'm ready need to move on.

But moving on is so damn costly. If you don't know what job to do, how do you figure it out? You start with what you enjoy. Well, I enjoy art, music, science, economics, reading, theorizing, problem-solving, writing and math. That didn't help. I don't enjoy accounting or finance or being a corporate lacky. I do enjoy creating tangible products that have value to me and others. I need to bear the fruits of my labor. What does that all translate into?

Entrepreneurship. Yeah, I think that's right. But that's just a fancy way of saying self-employment. Self-employment means determing your own job. So in a way, I'm only slightly closer to an answer. Enterpreneurship doing what?.

I'm at a wall. Figuring out what you want to do with your life is difficult because it is costly. However, I must pay the price now because if I don't, I'll never be able to repay the debt of future regret.

Any entrepreneurs out there have some advice for this impressionable twenty-something? I know I won't be the only one listening.