We're back with Tim Keller, author of the book titled every good endeavor connecting

your work to God's work.

We talked yesterday on the important topics of business vocation and calling along the

way we talked to college graduates and we talked to parents, we talked to Christian

to feel stuck, stuck in their jobs.

Let's move forward and discuss a young man or a young woman who is deciding on a career

now.

I mean one of the things you see in the book is that in New York City a number of sharp

young adults graduate from college and then they select a career as a form of identity

that the career becomes for them a status symbol.

Explain that.

Well, there's been a lot of great books written recently on this idea that we live in

a consumerist's age in which your identity is seen in the products you consume.

I'm the kind of person that wears this kind of clothing, owns this kind of electronics

I, you know, these are the accessories I use.

So you actually get your identity from the brands that you use.

And I'm afraid that what's happened here is that jobs are like that too.

And there's just no doubt I see plenty of people taking jobs that really don't fit,

hey, they don't, it doesn't fit their talents very well.

And be very often the jobs don't necessarily fulfill them because the jobs aren't really

maybe helping people very much, but the jobs are high status.

And because they're high status, people feel like I need to be in that job so I can feel

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