This question helped me a lot and I wanted to write about it.
Using what I am good at and contributing in a meaningful way, matters to me. Author James Clear explains one idea simply: “Every career has a set of common problems that frequently arise. One of the keys to loving your job is to enjoy working on the frequent problems that comes with your chosen path. In the best cases, wrestling with the problems feels like fun.”
I resonated with his idea. I was a corporate worker moving through several domains at one company. I enjoyed solving the problems presented at each role and I cared deeply about producing good work. Ngl, there is comfort and security from having stable work and money. I felt lucky.
In 2017, I crossed paths with Chinese metaphysics. Curious about the art, I paid for a reading and gotten solid inputs for my life. I was moving along life fine and I didn’t explore the art beyond the reading.
Sometimes life has its way of giving us new information. Problems I enjoyed working on gradually felt like labour and I stopped having fun. Realising my want to leave a place I worked at for 16 years was scary as hell, but I did, and left in 2024.
In 2023 I stepped into a new 10-year luck pillar. In Chinese metaphysics, the transitioning of a luck pillar indicates new incoming energy – a new season of life. I didn’t realise it then. I was catching up on reading and one book led to another – I found myself reading and researching BaZi.
At first, reading the books was excruciating slow. It had been years since I read Chinese books and there was no rush to complete the books quickly. I was simply… fascinated by the subject.
Slowly I learn I could read charts. I signed up for an online course to complement my learning. Most importantly – I discovered I loved the rigour of reading charts.
I think I found the problem I want to solve.
Talk soon,
Jacqueline