Purpose > Prestige. ALWAYS

During my final university year, a Professor asked me a classic question, "what do you want to do when you graduate?"

​I paused for a brief moment. I knew what he was expecting to hear: a linear climb from Human Resources in the tech sector to an executive suite, perhaps pursue a law degree to progress to a firm. Those paths are ambitious, respectable, and possible. Probably something I even considered at the time. It would have been the easy answer.

​But, instead of providing a recitabke answer, I told him one thing I was sure of. "I want to be happy."

​At that moment in my life, I was content, and my ambition was to preserve that feeling in whatever I chose to do next.

I was not about to define my future by a job title or working for a well-known employer. One thing I refused to accept was a career devoid of intrinsic reward. More than anything, I knew I did not want to end up in an empty job, or at least one that feels empty to me.

Purpose > Prestige. Always.