Why don't you tell me about where, like what is going on right now?

So I just finished my sixth year teaching and when I originally started I told myself that I was going to teach for five years.

I'm talking to Jason, a friend of a friend who's in the midst of deciding when to leave his full-time job as a high school teacher to pivot his career to become a freelance theater director.

For a year, the thought of leaving his secure job with benefits has kept coming up, so much so that it's become distracting.

My heart wasn't in it.

My students got the short end of the stick.

But for the entire year, he hasn't been able to commit to a decision either way. And that's kind of in Jason's nature.

I'll spend 20 30 minutes explaining why I should do something else and then I say or

and then I go on a rant talking about the other side.

Do you ever wish that you were the type of person who just made a decision and just did it?

Absolutely.

There are a lot of people like Jason, caught in between major life decisions.

And when you're in your 20s, every decision can feel like it's going to define the rest of your life.

And people get stuck, never making a decision. How do you get

past that and what does it take to make decisions quickly? You're listening to millennial, a podcast about coming of age. Today, decision-making. We're going to talk to someone with 70 years of experience.

I'll admit, like Jason, I take my time when it comes to making decisions.

And if you've listened to the show, you've heard me spend hours, days, weeks, asking people's opinions,

listening to stories, and debating one decision. It's pretty rare for me to just

make a big life-altering decision super quick. You know that doesn't make sense.

Why doesn't that make sense?

If you've also been listening to the show, you know this voice.

It's Chuck, Ben, my boyfriend's father.

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