1. Testdrive
Your
Dream
Job
in
Paris
(3)
By
Peter
de
Kuster
What
is
a
Dream
Job
for
You?
You
know
-­‐
if
you’re
considering
a
dream
job
–
that
the
push
toward
a
dream
career
is
not
just
about
how
you
spend
your
working
hours.
It’s
about
meshing
your
work
life
with
your
deepest
sense
of
yourself.
It’s
about
having
work
that
matches
your
values,
that
feeds
insteads
of
exhausts
you,
that
doesn’t
require
you
to
leave
your
priorities
at
home
and
check
your
heart
at
the
door.
When
we
imagine
a
dream
job,
we
imagine
a
job
where
we
are
fully
ourselves,
in
which
our
hearts
and
minds
are
equally
engaged.
This
engagement
is
what
people
feel
on
a
Testdrive
Your
Dreamjob.
And
once
they
reconnect
with
that
deepest
sense
of
self,
few
are
willing
to
return
to
the
status
quo.
Les
Deux
Magots:
one
of
the
places
from
which
Julia
Child
made
her
discovery
journey
of
Paris
and
undertook
her
Testdrive
Your
Dream
Job.

2. Which
of
course
brings
up
the
next
question;
what
happens
after
the
Testdrive
Your
Dream
Job?
You
go;
you
fall
in
love
with
a
career;
you
leave
fired
up
to
work
in
your
chosen
field…and
then
what?
Sure,
you
had
a
great
couple
of
days,
weeks,
months;
sure,
you
know
what
you
want
to
do
–
but
there’s
a
whole
other
story
between
wanting
and
making
it
happen.
And
when
you
look
to
that
story
it’s
full
of
house
payments,
car
payments,
bills
for
the
kids,
food
bills,
health
care,
…
How
exactly
do
you
take
the
next
step?.
It
took
a
while
before
Julia
searched
for
her
Dream
Job
in
the
direction
of
her
passion
for
“French
Food”.
She
discovered
this
in
small
(jolly)
steps.
The
question
is
its
own
answer.
You
take
the
next
step.
The
next
small
step.
The
biggest
surprise
for
people
who
find
or
create
their
dream
job
is
that
it
doesn’t
have
to
happen
all
at
once.
It
doesn’t
have
to
be
an
all-­‐or-­‐nothing
leap
from
security
in
the
unknown.
Instead,
it
can
be
a
series
of
small
steps
that
you
take
only
as
you
feel
ready.
Sure,
there
are
the
few
really
bold
(or
independently
wealthy)
Dream
Job
Hunters
who
cut
the
ties
to
their
previous
careers
and
hurl
themselves
full-­‐time
into
new
ones.
But
most
people
take
it
more
slowly.
They
continue
at
their
current
jobs
while
transitioning
gradually
into
the
dream.
They
do
research,
they
write
a
business
story,
they
figure
out
how
to
begin
their
new
career
without
taking
on
more
risk
than
they
can
handle.
Some
go
to
school
to
get
more
training.

3. Some
dedicate
a
period
of
time
to
paying
off
debt
and
building
savings
so
they’ll
have
funds
for
their
new
careers.
Some
find
work
in
the
new
field
while
they
put
together
a
business
of
their
own.
The
path
and
the
timeline
vary
from
person
to
person;
what
they
all
have
in
common,
though,
is
the
passion
and
the
inspiring
story
to
move
ahead.
Your
Dream
Job
is
where
Your
Heart
is
Ofcourse,
after
a
Testdrive
Your
Dream
Job,
some
people
find
that
the
job
they
tried
was
not
the
job
they
thought
they
wanted.
Finding
that
you
don’t
love
your
dream
job
as
much
as
you’d
hoped
can
be
disappointing;
the
dream
is
crashed,
the
“what
next?”
question
is
alarmingly
reopened.
But
even
people
who
have
that
experience
usually
consider
their
test-­‐drive
a
success;
they’re
thankful
that
it
showed
them
what
they
didn’t
want
before
they
ventured
further.
For
most
people
–
whether
or
not
they
find
their
dream
job
the
journey
is
like
opening
the
door
to
a
long
–
closed
room.
Sunlight
and
fresh
air
touch
something
that
has
long
been
in
the
dark,
and
the
result
is
a
renewed
sense
of
self
and
a
new
sense
of
possibility.
Testdriving
your
dream
job
will
be
fun
(it
is
a
vacation,
after
all);
it
may
be
exhausting
(people
tend
to
work
hard
at
the
jobs
they
love);
it
will
be

4. exhilarating
to
spend
time
with
someone
who
works
at
his
or
her
passion.
And
it
will
probably
leave
you
changed.
So
don’t
make
a
Testdrive
Your
Dream
Job
if
you’re
afraid
of
sparking
something
passionate
inside
you.
Do
it
only
if
you’re
ready
to
be
renewed.
The
quote
from
Julia
Child
“Bon
Appetit”
who
became
famous
as
the
culinary
writer
who
made
the
french
kitchen
accesible
for
the
American
audience.
But
it
started
with
her
“Testdrive
your
Dream
Job”.