For a long time I’ve been talking about the role of serendipity in careers. Read my article here.

And now I just ran across another story. Roberta Rosenberg writes about becoming an accidental marketer. While studying to be a broadcast journalist, she took a day job as a copywriter. She realized she loved it and that’s what she wanted to do with her life. Read the story here.

I admire Roberta’s self-awareness. It would have been easy to say, “Hey, I’ve committed to this broadcast journalism goal. Copywriting? OK, it’s fun, but I’m meant to be a journalist.”