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Context: You have Chapter 13, Draw Your Own Map and followed it diligently.
Problem: Yet the map you have drawn leads you away from Chapter 9, The Long Road.
Solution: Follow your own map and remember what you learned on Chapter 9, The Long Road.
You have been walking the long road for some time. But now as a consequence of Drawing Your Own Map you have reached a point where you have realised that it is no longer a suitable choice for you. You have found another path which has rewards that are more in tune with your current values: this may be more time with your family or it may be more money or it may be that a new vocation has captured your attention. Whatever it is, it means saying goodbye to the craft and Chapter 9, The Long Road. This may or may not be permanent.
You may leave the road permanently but the values and principles you developed on the road will always be with you. As Dave found out when he ceased to be a family therapist, he couldn't take Prospero's choice (burning his books and breaking his staff) but brought the lessons and experiences from that vocation to his new craft. The same applies to you.
Larry's detour through family therapy
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In a sense, I can't stay away from the people issues any more than I can stay away from computers. I thought I had escaped when I bid farewell to the computer field in July of 1976, declaring my independence even as America celebrated the bicentennial of its independence. Trained as a family therapist, I ended up spending more than a decade in private practice and agency practice working with couples and families and troubled adolescents. But the forces of the universe conspired to steer me back toward the technological frontier. |
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| --Larry Constantine, The Peopleware Papers | ||
