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By Jamie posted 08-26-2018 17:32

  

Hello! Hello! This is Jamie Dickstein signing on as the newest addition to the Discovering My Purpose Staff! I could not be more excited to join the team as an intern for the 2018-19 year!

I want to start this entry off further by introducing myself. As previously stated, my name is Jamie and I am seventeen years old. I am a rising senior at Chattahoochee High School and am very active in various leadership and community service organizations. I love to laugh so if you got a good joke, please come and find me!

I am a big believer that each and every person has a passion in life.  However, many people, teens especially, don’t make the effort to explore what it is that makes them want to get up in the morning.

It was a teacher of mine this past year that best described this phenomenon. She sat my class of thirty-three students down and explained to us that our generation has more resources and education available than ever before. Especially since my classmates and I are lucky enough to live in a well-off area, we don’t just have exemplary education and resources, we also have money to further our education and involvement in areas of interest.

The issue is, however, none of us care. My teacher claimed that the majority of the people in the room were sitting in her class that very moment, not because it is a stepping stone to achieving their life goals, but because it is a stepping stone to getting rich.

My teacher was willing to bet that everyone sitting in that room was more likely to take a high paying job we can’t stand over a lower-paying dream job because frankly, we lack passion. We do not care about chasing dreams or finding a true purpose in life because it is not the easy way out.

The scariest part of this whole lecture was she was one-hundred percent right. I had never truly stopped to think about what it is that would lead me to live the most fulfilling life possible, so I vowed to do some self-exploration. I knew I had an interest in advertising and was already passionate about being an advocate for causes I believe in, so I thought why not combine the two?

After this realization and a little research, it became my personal goal to combine advertising campaigns with civic campaigns by working for a non-profit ad agency. Luckily for me, Discovering My Purpose is helping me to do just that. I am gaining real-world experience in both my fields of interest all while working to ensure my peers can live happy, fulfilling and purposeful lives as well.

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