14/08/2020
The sun rises.
We wake, shower, dress. And then it's off to work. The daily commute. Traffic, or waiting for the train. We arrive at our office. We sit.
The day goes by. Meetings, calls, and deliverables. A break for lunch, then back we go. Eight hours pass and we pack our things and leave for home—maybe stop for happy hour on the way. We rest, we eat. The sun sets and we go to bed.
Tomorrow, it will rise again.
Days become weeks, then months, then years. And those years become careers. A life measured in promotions and projects, job titles, and three-year stints.
For most of us, this is the way things are. The only way we were ever told that they could be.
And so we wake up, day after day, week after week, and continue to walk the path that we're on.
But not all of us.
Some of us wake one morning with an itch. We step out of the current and ask ourselves: is this it? Will my life be measured in quarterly figures? Is the sum of my life's contribution going to be totaled in lines of code?
Or is there something more?
Three and a half years ago, Tim Chow asked himself that very question. It wasn't that he was unhappy, unfulfilled, or unrewarded—six years in, he had just received a lucrative offer to continue his sales career as part of his employer's acquisition by a larger company. The pay and benefits were good, and Tim enjoyed what he did.
But something was bothering him:
"It really scared me to think that I'd spent five, six, seven years in this world without much critical thought—without thinking about whether this was what I really wanted to do. I don't have that many five-year stints."
Hear the whole episode at hundreds.ofways.com and find Tim by visiting wilcoproductions.com.
