A lifetime of learning with the one intent of becoming good at something has yielded little more than being very general at many things.
The modern day Renaissance man is common enough. Living in a time where much of your future is uncertain. We spend 4 years to earn a degree in X only to become Y, V, W, and other.
It seems that my life has been one of constant learning of new things to enable me to perform the next3 year task. This goes on and on. Yet if I worked in a factory placing a part for twenty years, or in an office pushing a paper I do not imagine it would provide any more meaning in life.
Over the years the variety of odd jobs has not eroded away the content of my heart but rather the location. Of all the cities by the sea I have lived in this one offer many special challenges. mostly it is the same as anywhere.
The goal is to do something that is meaningful in life anywhere. Even better would be to do something I like at a location that is not too dreadful.
Knowing nothing goes beyond the work place it is life. Talking to other people during the week I learn just how much I do not know. Words. Ideas. TV shows. Not only alien to me often strange and unreal. How much have I missed? Is it worth knowing? When too far out I take some relief in not knowing of such.