Your purpose is not your job, it's something bigger

Let's talk a little bit about purpose. One of the things, I think one of the mistakes that people make is they think purpose comes from their job, right? And we see this in military and non military, which is I've been a whatever for so many years and when then I lose my job or I retire, I now don't have a sense of purpose because I've, I so closely associated my self worth with the job that I did. And you said that happened even in the military where I knew what my job was. I had a sense of purpose. And one wonders if those things are conflated, right? Which is I had a sense of purpose for my job, but then when I didn't have the job, when I left the military, all of a sudden I sense I didn't know what I woke up in the morning, didn't know what to do.

You had a sense of service because of the community and now you've found a sense of service because you're literally in service to, to that community again.

But it's not the job, it's the sense of service.

I don't even consider this a job or a career. I consider this my passion. I'm like, I will keep on doing this. Keep your money. I love doing this. And it's funny, my previous jobs, I'd get in trouble, like, hey, you're taking too much time off. Like, I don't care. I need to do these, I need to hang out with these guys, I need to take care of them. I need to do what I need to do. And I love it. And this is it for me. I am fortunate and lucky enough to find my purpose in life.

And this is what I want to stress to any vet who's listening to this or watching this, which is the purpose is not your mos. Your purpose is not. You're a saw gunner. Your purpose is not the job that you wake up to do every day. Your purpose is something bigger.