One life - you got to do what you can.

Well, for one I work for a large health non-profit. Let's call it the Foundation. My job is challenging, tough, exhausting, exhilarating, depressing...it tears me in so many directions I sleep it, eat it, dream it. But am I giving my all to a cause that only feeds on itself? Am I working there because it's somewhere comfortable ($, health insurance) or doing something good?

I do like the health insurance, and it's a challenge to live in a major city without money. But there are other jobs. So it's the "doing good" eh? That canned answer...

So why are you applying to law school?
What made you want to be a doctor?

I really am not complaining...I started writing this and then went to a workshop. During that workshop an oncology nurse said that when she started nursing about 25 years ago, if a child was diagnosed with cancer, they would immediately begin preparing the family for the death of that child. Now, with cure rates of the most common form of cancer at over 80% things are very different. Which is good.

Which makes me want to stay at this job. It really can't be about the money.