The Practical Side of Blueflash...Finding your Ultimate Career

I knew a guy in my college class...he wanted to become a heart surgeon...he did!
I knew many who wanted to become teachers...they did!
I know someone who wanted to become a celebrated artist...she has become one!

They did not take half their life to discover it.  They just did it....

Why does it seems so hard for business students to figure out their clear life vision?

Is it something about the ubiquity of the business world?  that makes it somehow less a profession and more difficult, thus, to find one's way?

Author Michael Novk wrote a famous book, "Buiness as a Calling".  He develops the idea that being in business is no less a sacred profession than is one in the arts...

My recent book, "Letters to a Young President" follows this idea...that our business students of today are the presidents of novel companies of the future...

But, I know, the business pathway is maybe more difficult than that in music, art, teaching or medicine...there are just so many possibilities for being in business...for positions in management.

Our business students (there are several hundred thousand just now studying in the US alone) today need to experiment, take chances, follow hunches...and mabe one third or one half way through their life, they will find the central project that will become the signature mission of their professional life....

Our role as their teachers and mentors is to help that process...it demands enormous patience for us all...but great anticipation of the possibilities that await....

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were once struggling to figure this all out....

The young guys who founded Google, Facebook, etc.,  stumbled brilliantly upon their thing at a quite young age...they found their art and music in business....

Passion is the central theme...it is ageless...