Career, calling, Kingdom

I wrote in Careers as Verbs that we need to rethink how we focus education for vocation.  Actually, I think we need to rethink how we think about careers, period.  (Sorry about all the thinking in that sentence. #sorrynotsorry #thinkingisgood)

The way I see it (right now, anyway), it’s one big soup of experience, nature, nurture, Providence, and vision that cooks up into a calling.

Or, dropping the cooking metaphor, this is what I’ve got so far:

A career
develops out of the calling to Kingdom work,
a deep-seated passion rooted in giftedness and interests,
an urgency to tackle a problem — some aspect of this world’s brokenness — in the name of the King,
leading to a rich sense of purpose,
within boundaries that you may or may not be able to change.

(Those boundaries include elements like the family and location and opportunities you were born into, the actions of your parents/family that crafted your upbringing, your own innate potential, the level of investment by other people in your life, your particular personality and how others shaped it, your character, your educational opportunities, your personal choices to work hard or study hard or train hard [or not], your health, the work and hobbies you’ve chosen to pursue, the values you deem important, your choice of a spouse, etc….. )

Thoughts?
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