eventually stop searching for that elusive perfect job and…
Page 136 eventually stop searching for that elusive perfect job and realized that I had to combine two or three different Types of work, when I called at work portfolio, to get the right combination of money, enjoyment and fulfillment.
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
We do it to our children, too, smoothing every playground until it is so safe it can no longer teach them anything, when what they need is ground challenging enough to grow on. And some of us simply keep searching, year after year, for the elusive perfect job, the perfect plan, the perfect moment — until we finally see that the searching itself was the avoidance. [Name here the stretch of your own flight you spent climbing a ladder, only to find at the top that it had been leaning against the wrong wall.] — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)