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Is it admitting defeat to think, hey, maybe I won't ever get the kind of work or career I am hoping for? We all have extraordinary hopes and high expectations for ourselves; I think many of us recognize the Desk Jockey as one of the lowest of all fates. The children of hippies and raised in an age of artificial empowerment, we struggle to convince ourselves that we'd rather be happy and poor than rich and miserable. But do most people really get what they want? Happiness, wealth, and accomplishment all rest at the very end of a bell curve. Most of us probably won't get what we want, or what we expected, and is that always such a bad thing? Maybe it was just horrendously arrogant of me to think I'm entitled to a great job in the first place. We all have high hopes but will we feel inadequate when we fall short of practically impossible odds?