This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 164 sitting with Echo Charles going to

Provide some insight hopefully some courses of action for you all what do we got let's get some questions from the from the troopers

Courses of action okay

I'm looking for purpose in my life I want to help people and feel like I have aligned with my strengths as an individual

To where my income is from is from something I really enjoy and I feel like I'm making a difference. I have a beautiful wife and one-year-old son and I work as a wildland firefighter. I enjoy the physicality of the job and the team aspect that I don't feel like it's my true purpose. It's hard on my family to be gone for a good portion of the summer as well. I wanted this job because I want to make California safer and enhance the health of the forest. I'm taking forestry classes at a local college and I'm on the path to get a good job. Before my family or my job, as a firefighter, I had a dream to be a stand-up comedian.

I felt a lot of passion and purpose in the pursuit of that goal.

However, as life has gotten busier, that dream has got pushed to the side.

I'm not sure which direction to go now.

I'm squared away in life, have good discipline, and I just need a direction. I'm trying to

listen closely to my intuition as to where to go next. I'm starting back at comedy. I'm doing it

very consistently now, and I've given myself this year to see if it's still something I want. I don't see

myself dropping everything for it, though. I have a family to provide for.

I've always dreamed of owning some type of business that helps people

or really just play into my strengths to help at a job that I really believe in.

I know firefighting, you're helping and giving.

I just don't think it's for me long term.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Well, yeah, starting off, thanks thanks your service as a wildland firefighter that's a freaking rough job and especially if you've been out

here in california you've had a busy season so thank you um here's i guess my thoughts are like

okay you like the comedian thing i would would say keep trying the comedian thing, but entertainment is hard.

And I don't know the percentage, but I'm going to guess that 99% of people that try and be

comedians cannot make a living by being a comedian.

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