"Lucas E. Nikkel, a Dartmouth graduate, wants to be a doctor, but for now he is teaching eighth-grade chemistry at a middle school in North Carolina, one of nearly 2,200 new members of Teach for America.
I'm looking at medical school, and everybody says taking time off first is a good idea," he said. "I think I'm like a lot of people who know they want to do something meaningful before they start their careers." (NY Times)
Yes, let us do something meaningful BEFORE we start our careers, which, appear, in this context to be non-meaningful. Such a shame we'll spend most of our lives in our careers - most of our days doing non-meaningful work.
What a change it would be if careers were undertaken because they were "meaningful," rather than for all the other reasons they are undertaken
