Three Ways to Find Purpose in a Dreary, Dead-end Job

Is there anything more inspiring than watching an ambitious, albeit naive, young person start their career? I was that person years ago.

Full of high hopes, I marched into an upscale department store that had hired me as a department manager the week after I graduated from college. Determined to rise to the top and set the world on fire along the way, I forged ahead, unaware that my cheap suit was only the first sign of many reckonings I would face as a newly minted professional.

While the job seemed glamorous on the surface, I soon learned that most of my time would be spent persuading women to buy polka dots rather than stripes that season. At the end of the day, I felt it was the extent of my contribution to civilization.

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