Building a puzzle

I used to have a very different idea about jobs. I always thought that the kind of job I could get would somehow define me. I left a lot of jobs without giving two weeks of notice because I felt that I was better, inside. I didn't like my superiors and felt that I was more capable sometimes. I guess in some ways it is true, the type of job you can qualify for does resemble your discipline to some degree. Those who are willing to go to school are showing that discipline and their degrees are reflections of that. However, the job itself does not make me. Over the course of this semester we have read different stories of people who go from job to job and there seems to be no shame in that. That's how I saw it before. I felt like it was some kind of failure to move from one thing to the next. These different people instead do it because they are taking ownership of their lives and they are being responsible with how they use their time. I can see in their decisions that they are working through a process. They aren't looking for the job that will fit them, they are looking for how the jobs can give them the pieces that they need to build what they are meant to do. I am still changing my mindset. Change is always uncomfortable, especially when it has to do with how you will provide for yourself and what you will be doing with such a significant portion of your time. Change can also be exciting. Times of change can mean that things have been learned and you are ready to move on, or things are not working and you need to go back to learn something that will help you to be successful. Change is progress if you can see it that way.