10+ Years of Not Choosing a Career Path

22 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube excerpt, two speakers discuss the anxiety and paralysis that can arise from trying to choose a single career direction. Speaker B uses a metaphor—taking a piece of cheese and putting holes in it—to describe a talent for critique and consulting, suggesting that a consultant role is intentionally vague and can encompass many areas. Speaker A probes the source of this fear, noting that committing to one path feels like abandoning other possibilities. The conversation centers on a person named Eric, who has avoided committing to any career for over a decade, playing it safe and fearing the hard work of figuring out his next step. Speaker A argues that even a wrong early choice moves Eric closer to the right path, emphasizing the value of taking risk and making a decision rather than remaining stagnant.

What job do you want?
I know as a friend said, I'm good at taking a piece of cheese and put— putting holes in it.
What job is that?
A critic, a consultant, potentially.
Consultant is the most broad term you could ever say. I could consult on anything. I'm consulting right now. Yeah. Where does this fear of picking a direction come from?
I'm not sure where it comes from, but if I pick one direction, I'm leaving out all the other directions I could go.
But you're not going any direction. Eric is afraid to commit to a path, and he has been stuck not picking for over a decade. He's playing small, and he's afraid to take a risk and do the hard work to figure out what's next. And sure, he might end up being wrong at first, but he will be one step closer to getting it right.
And I guess I'm afraid to commit to a path if that's not the ultimate path that I should have committed to.