They told you this degree will get you “this” job, “this” life. For a lot of people that’s still true, but not without accepting some compromises, maybe it’s a longing, an internal aching that we’ve learned to subdue, maybe it’s that nagging feeling of not living the life we were meant to. That’s something we’ve been taught to accept, every institution, social construct, academics, corporation needs us to give into. And maybe some people don’t want to accept that. Maybe some people want to live that life that is calling them.
Maybe that’s the great divide. Trying to live out that purpose but being rejected by the norm for rejecting the norm.