Has there been a moment(s) in your life when you realized you wanted to do or be something as a career? Did you realize it right away? Have you followed through with the realization? Has it be rewarding?

I've been through this realization multiple times in my life or "what do I want to do with my career". The first was right out of high school when I decided where I wanted to go to college. By the end of my college experience, I wasn't so sure that it was what I wanted to do anymore, but that was because of the education experience, or lack thereof, that I received.

Now I feel that I'd like to start my own company. I'm attempting to follow through with that realization and it's a wonderful dream, but turning a dream into a reality isn't as easy as it may sound to be sometimes.

It's an interesting thought, but as you grow older, sometimes you wonder whether or not the career that you want to choose is really actually what you want or not.

Growing up, I wanted to be an actor, and at a crucial time I chose technology for the money. I've regretted that a lot.

But in my life since, there have been many epiphanies that have shown me the way forward along that path.

@kissane, maybe @fchimero, others were talking about "personal canons." Here's mine: amazon.com

They're not the books everyone should read, but rather the books that opened entirely new vistas of possibility to me. I live by them all, perhaps because of them all.

Likewise, I attended a small conference which showed me how to get back to a six year old abandoned project, what it could mean again. It's always immediate, that connection. It's knowing what I have to do.