“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life,” Confucius (supposedly) once said. If this is true, I have not worked in more than 40 years. Yes, I am one of those unbelievably lucky people who love what they do. Where I am today is because of a thousand little things that happened to me along the way, most of them positive, some of them negative, but all of them meaningful to me. These experiences have made me look at myself and my career from a different perspective than I think I would have had they not occurred. …