Very few people want to be just one thing in their life, Most peope change, grow or have different priorities at different stages of life.
Like a lot of women, I felt the need to be a mother and of course I wanted to be a good mother which made it a high priority. The child I had required more of a mother than most so I happily undertook the job.
As years passed her needs changed and so did my economic status. Being a good mother meant being better able to provide financial support so I examined what I enjoyed that would pay well. I trained for accounting and did it for 15 years.
Then the time came when I didn’t need as much money because I was only supporting myself and was beginning to feel “been there, done that” I also had different priorities when it came to what I enjoyed, I thought about different careers, including nursing, before I decided to go into teaching-now into my 18th year.
Even people who stay in the same career seldom do the same thing all their lives. Even if they don’t change positions ie nurses changing from one specialty to another or clerks moving up within a company, over the course of one’s worklife the job changes ie what started out as invoicing and billing and collating paperwork morphs into the paperless office.
When I was much younger I remember working with a woman who had been basically doing the same job for 20 years. She was efficient and detailed oriented and every time they offered her a promotion, she turned it down. Eventually I realized she was doing what she wanted to do-not the 40 hrs/wk of shuffling paper, she spent almost as much time gardening.