Article April 12, 1982 Issue

Spiritual aspiration and career choices

JOE ELLER

Jessie M. Honeyman, an early force in preserving Oregon's scenic coastline, once said, "A task without a vision is drudgery; a vision without a task, a dream; a vision with a task, a victory."^{Oregon Journal, July 20, 1941 .}

Could not such thinking be applied to career choices? If the work we choose is the "task," then the aspirations motivating our career plans could be called the "vision." The big question is, To what do we aspire in our career?

The desire for spirituality is the one fail-safe motivation for making sound career choices. With spiritual aspirations, one finds that careers simply do not drag into drudgery. The individual who holds to goals that have been molded by spiritual vision is not a dreamer! He or she sees the path ahead and takes each step as it becomes clear. The victory? It's not one that can be measured by quick climbs up some corporate ladder. Instead, it's an endless victory, one we gain every day as spirituality sought and won controls our thinking and living.

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