This is perhaps old information to many, and I went to hear Alain de Botton speak at the Opera House on the topic some years ago myself, but I am just now reading through his book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. (Then to my amusement I did what all intelligent, sensible and God-fearing folks do and had a go at a Facebook application that determines your vocation based on nothing but your date of birth, and got the result above.) I don’t especially want to keep doing what I am doing for work, but I don’t altogether know where to go next either. The problem isn’t that I don’t know what it is I love to do. I do. The problem is just how to turn any or all of those things into something that generates a stable income. In truth, I also hoped that I might be entrusted with children to raise, but as that requires that a Christian guy ask me out, which is the impossible dream I don’t see being realised any time soon (and time is running out), I can’t consider that an option. So I feel like I am in a strange place where the things I would love to do either don’t lend themselves to a secure income, or are not things that I can plan/take action towards. And at the moment I feel like work is something I do to earn some money, and I do what I enjoy doing in my spare time, but perhaps the two don’t have to be so mutually exclusive, and I'd like to be a little closer to the 'coal face' of what matters than I am now.