George Harrison is singing a song I’ve not heard before, but the chorus has a familiar ring as I write.
And if you don’t know where you’re going
Any road will take you there.
He uses some pretty effective imagery to illustrate his point.
But I’ve been traveling on a boat and a plane
In a car on a bike with a bus and a train
Traveling there, traveling here
Everywhere in every gear.
Does it feel that way for you, too? I have a new friend who asked about my career, and as I described it I realized 
that I may have done too much stuff: technical writing, for the most part, but also creative writing, retail, cookware sales, office manager, hearing aid sales, traveling jelly salesman, substitute school teacher, insurance, and five years as a laborer in a rock quarry. I tried to color it as a healthy sense of entrepreneurial adventure, but I think the reality may be closer to simply losing sight of where I wanted to end up and what I wanted to do along the way. I enjoyed most of those jobs, and sometimes made money, but not all of them developed or required my particular talents, and I wasn’t as successful as I should have been. I wasn’t as happy as I could have been, “traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear.”
