Honorable

What's an honorable career path?

What counts as one?

Does it really matter if it's "honorable" or not?

No.

The answer is no.

It doesn't matter what's honorable or not because there is no honorable career path. A street cleaner has the same importance and honor as a doctor does.

Careers should not be ranked. There is no career above another, because without any career, the world would not be as complete as it is. It doesn't matter if you're a lawyer saving someone's ass from jail time or if you're a cashier trying to help a screaming customer, you are making a difference in this world.

If you think about it, a doctor is only saving one life at a time. A writer's work could save many for years to come.

However, this isn't to put down what doctors' jobs are. They are undoubtedly important and do a great deal for the world. But so do writers. So do engineers. So do janitors. So do teachers. So do the little minuscule jobs that people seem to look down upon.

If you love what your job is, and if you believe that what you're doing makes you happy, you will make others' lives better in little ways or big ways. Your choice of career still matters just as much as the next career, no matter how successful or unsuccessful you are.

Many say being able to do what you truly love is a privilege of the rich and more fortunate. That's true. Someone who has to look out for their family or doesn't have the financial stability cannot pursue their dream of becoming a writer as easily as someone whose family is able to fully pay for college and have money left over for them. Their situation is different, but it doesn't change the fact that whatever career they end up taking is still worth as much as the person who has the financial support's career is.

Do not judge yourself and your path based on the societal norm of ranking careers. Do not push down your dreams because you feel they are not enough. Do not live your life to please others when it is your own.

Philosophers were wrong—

You are allowed to be selfish. You cannot truly live without being selfish. If you are not selfish, then you are nothing but a means to an end. You are a tool that the world uses. Being selfish does not result in a just punishment for that selfishness. Sometimes your selfishness is not an evil.

Sometimes your selfishness is the most good you are going to get yourself and those around you.