Whoopi Goldberg was a morgue beautician.
And Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
Wherever you are on the road to your ultimate objective, career or personal, your experiences fundamentally contribute to shaping who you ultimately become. No job or duty is insignificant as long as you frame it in a meaningful way.
During an interview on, Inside the Actor's Studio Kevin Costner said the following:
“I worked on fishing boats, I built houses, I know how to work. I
think if you boil me down, I’m a laborer. I’m a worker-bee. It didn’t bother me
cause I had a degree and I took a job as a stage manager, and it was $3.50 an
hour out of college. And I was happy cause I knew what I wanted to be. I was
really, really happy. I didn’t care if I took out trash. I just knew in my
psyche that it needed to be “movie” trash. It needed to be, “stage” trash. I
needed to be close to the business.” And I think that’s what you have to be.
You have to be close. You have to talk with the animals that understand
you.”
Find the value in each job, each experience, regardless of how far you may now feel from where you want to be. It's there if you look closely enough.
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