Unpredictable. Unfocused. Just like life.

I was just looking at a job description. It had the standard list of requirements, including this one:

Focus in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

It occurs to me that we all should have that characteristic. After all, life is a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. And we are all focused.

We start as children, working our way through school grade by grade, meeting deadline-driven expectations in order to proceed, all the while having our ability to imagine and dream beaten out of us.

Then we go to college so that we can prepare for the working world. Then we get a job. And then another. So that we can pay the bills, buy a house, start a family, grow old, and die.

We are all experts at focusing in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. So why are there no job descriptions that read:

Able to dream and imagine things as they could be