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  This article is quite interesting!  It is probably more for young people who are not in the last part of their lives, and still have time to change professions.  ?  I don't know.  But it was interesting to me, and I'm 87 years old! Are You Sparked? Find the Work That Fits You Best By  Rodger Dean Duncan  · October 27, 2021 To read more from Rodger, visit  HIS BLOG . What kind of work is absolutely the best fit for you? It’s a good question, especially since you’ll likely spend the majority of your adult life doing it. What are the consequences of doing work that produces a paycheck but doesn’t really offer the challenge and fulfillment you’d like to have? And how can you even know what the “best fit” is for you? Jonathan Fields can help. Drawing on years of research, experimentation, more than 25 million data points generated from more than half a million people and hundreds of deep dive conversations with luminaries from science, art, industry ...

This touches my heart!  What a gift -- to be able to paint portraits like this!  JR Johansen in his studio in Hunstville, Utah. Faun Jackson As this wounded Vietnam vet answered a call to create portraits of missionaries who died during their service, he’s brought healing to grieving families—and to himself. The art studio is as unassuming as they come: it’s an undersized square cottage framed by trees outside a home in Huntsville, Utah. With its size and trappings—a broom and an upturned wheelbarrow flank the small front window—you might mistake it for a common tool shed. The artist laboring inside is JR Johansen, a man whose own exterior somehow belies an unexpectedly gentle core. Johansen’s graying flat-top haircut and tall, trim build hint at his past as a military man. But there’s no intimidation here; he’s soft spoken, with a mild manner that instantly conveys safety. This is a man on an exceptional mission: he’s creating portraits of missionaries who lost their lives du...