My Career Coach

 My thoughts and prayers are with my career coach, who has no idea what she has taken on.

I really like this person. She writes in a sunny and thoughtful way, and her insights are useful to me. For example, she thinks you should check out the maximum number of books from the library, even if you read only one. And she thinks you should double the suggested travel time, when you're running errands, so you aren't pulling out your own hair, in response to stress.

She thinks, if you're tired at parties, you should just stop performing. Just drop the act.

What I'm not learning is: how to identify the career I ought to pursue. The coach says she has two kinds of clients; one has infrastructure without ideas, the other has ideas without infrastructure. I'm afraid I belong to the first group. Reading about Harvey Fierstein, I'm in awe; the world has a "Newsies" musical because Fierstein said, "It seems advisable to create a 'Newsies' musical." Also, Fierstein called Cyndi Lauper--and called her, and called her, over many months--because he knew she was the right person for "Kinky Boots." He actually hired--then fired--someone else, all in the pursuit of a Lauper-shaped, Lauper-sized Holy Grail. These are ideas. This is someone who isn't wasting his time.

I realize my issue is a first-world issue, but here we are. Baby steps....