poetry

What to Be When You Grow Up

From
All your
Ev’ry day
Experience –
Choose that which you love
Or that thing which inspires
More than mediocrity.
You have your own unique talent
Lurking, waiting for discovery
From all your ev’ry day experience


This is my response to the W3 prompt this week. The challenge was to write a Dectina Refrain, a poem which, syllable-wise goes 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10, but that last line is the first four lines put together in one line. Got it?

Oh — and the theme was “free” in any form. I went with free as in autonomy.

I’ve been thinking a lot about jobs and careers and that sort of thing. I’m so proud of all my children. I encouraged them individually to pursue that which they love. That way work is work but it isn’t really work because you mostly love it, right?

Autonomy in the workplace can be the key to truly loving a job. When you can do what you do, without someone breathing down your neck, micromanaging everything you do — well, THAT is amazing. Then work really isn’t work, just passion and, ultimately, a job well done.

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