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Career is something you ought to look back to, in retrospect, but not forward to. Career is something that you can use to describe "Here's what I've done".

But if you start thinking about what you can and cannot do now because of what will happen to your career, it's just an excuse to keep on thinking what other people think of you. Career is a description, not a value by itself.

Thus, if you're fine with a gay dating site then the position is "your thing", and if you do things that are yours then, in the future, you'll end up finding new things that are yours too.

Sounds pretty nice compared to not taking a position you want but something else instead, and then later finding more work that you don't want because you set the early course to all that work that sounds nice but you didn't want to do.



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