“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - from The Summer Day poem by Mary Oliver

Decades ago, I met a man who volunteered with a non-profit organization that provided seminars to help Korean American youth with their career choices. He told me that the organization had held a career summit for medicine. The event was standing room-only as students and their parents crowded into the seminar room. Later, the organization held a summit on journalism careers, and only three people showed up. As a writer and a creative, I was saddened to hear about the turnout at the journalism event because it reminded me of my own struggles to find a career path in a creative field.