{"id":74418,"date":"2024-03-31T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=74418"},"modified":"2024-04-01T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:09:52","slug":"why-do-you-do-what-you-do-and-not-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=74418","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Do What You Do (And Not Something Else)?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of my favorite questions for times of small talk is \u201cWhy do you do what you do instead of doing something else?\u201d Or sometimes a variation: \u201cWhy do you love what you do?\u201d I ask this when I\u2019m in the barber\u2019s chair, on the x-ray table, or trying to articulate words as the dentist rummages around in my mouth\u2014just about anywhere a person has devoted themselves to a particular vocation. My favorite answer so far has been from a dermatologist: \u201cI work dentist hours but make doctor money.\u201d Clever!<\/p>\n

Of course, not everyone has the privilege of doing what they love and that comes out in conversation as well. I have met Uber drivers who immigrated to Canada and, as they did so, lost their engineering credentials. I have met people who were forced by their parents to pursue a field they didn\u2019t care for and people who, through the vicissitudes of life, ended up doing something that engaged little of their passion and few of their skills.<\/p>\n

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My dad devoted the best of his life to landscaping. And while he loved the design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite questions for times of small talk is \u201cWhy do you do what you do instead of doing something else?\u201d Or sometimes a variation: \u201cWhy do you love what you do?\u201d I ask this when I\u2019m in the barber\u2019s chair, on the x-ray table, or trying to articulate words as the dentist rummages around in my mouth\u2014just about anywhere a person has devoted themselves to a particular vocation. My favorite answer so far has been from a dermatologist: \u201cI work dentist hours but make doctor money.\u201d Clever!See AlsoA La Carte (September 18)A La Carte (May 11)A La Carte (June 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":74429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-74418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/martin-martz-JjT_7MwREm4-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74431,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74418\/revisions\/74431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}