Career Advice and Opportunities: The Road Less Traveled

As many people including myself embark bravely on new careers and many others are just considering trying something different a famous poem came to mind (and it could just be the red wine :-). Almost everyone has heard the famous saying about the road less traveled. So I just did a quick search and found it. It is a famous poem by Robert Frost, an American poet and the one of the most famous of all.

Robert Frost's 1916 poem: "The Road Not Taken”

Poem

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.