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Blind spot at Crossroads

I am hit by a stark revelation. Stark. Shocking. I do not know what to make out of it. If it is good or bad? More I think about it, it is serious and gross error that I have committed on my part.

The realization is simply this: I do not know what are the careers a person can pursue.

Now, this is a dumb, probably dumbest, question one can ask after working and pursuing for years. But it is true, I have been so enamored by finance, especially high-finance, that I never bothered to look into other professions. Its like we are so fixated on becoming something that we miss out

But there are thousands of careers (I won't demean them by calling it alternative careers) but which are equally exciting and worthwhile. Why didn't I ever look into it?! :-?

Was I brainwashed to get into this? Was the glorified world of finance too captivating? I don't know what was the reason. But I now realize, I never gave any other career or myself any shot at other careers. I am good at so many things, and with hard work, I would have made it wherever I was. So, why not?! :-?

Point: We take too many things taken for granted. We are so caught up in our own web that we forget the proverbial flowering tree. This is Selective Perception or Cognitive Bias at its worst / with magnified impact.

We just take too narrow an approach.
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