32. Choosing Not to Decide Is Still a Decision

No problem is so big and complicated that it can’t be run away from.

—C. Schulz

“Where did the years go?” asked Cindy Tang. “It seems just like yesterday that I got out of school and joined The Eye Care Center as an optometrist. The years went by, and colleagues came and went. I occasionally thought about looking at other places to work, but I never acted on it. So here I am—having worked for the same employer in the same location for my entire career.”

“I just came back from my 25th college reunion. Sue, my roommate during my senior year, had changed careers three times and lived in five or six different cities. A couple of my sorority sisters had had a dozen different jobs and had moved up the ...

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