I want to make a difference in life and I think society's protestant work ethic has definitely influenced me in life, however I am in a life rut and have not moved anywhere in a career path or made any roads in social changes in society as I have wanted to. Now, at the age of 47, I feel no purpose and as if I have no identifiable skills.

While I know that this is logically not true, our society, especially the labor force, has been telling us constantly how to improve, how to add, how to correct, how to strengthen etc, etc,....constantly indicating that we are never good enough. Constructive criticism has rarely told us what we have done well. This has lefft many people wondering what, if anything, can they do well. While this mostly applies to the work force, it does get taken home into other environments.

Schools tell us what we do wrong and what we should aim to achieve. Strive for better all the time. At home, parents are being told they should be raising little einsteins or gretzkies, or trumps. It is easy to lose direction in life as the world around us is telling what we must be or should be.