If the salary was the same, what job would you be doing right now and why?

If the salary was the same, I would be a writer.

I would write about people and their life stories.

Today, I heard something that made me think. Between the date you are born and the date you die, there is a dash.

Such a small mark, yet it represents an entire lifetime.

What happened during that dash? Who did you love? What did you survive? What made you happy? What broke your heart? What chances did you take? What do you wish you had done differently?

Everyone has a story to tell.

I would love to sit with people and listen to those stories—the good, the bad, the painful, the funny, and even the moments they think don’t matter.

Because those moments are their life.

If salary didn’t matter, I would be a writer. I would tell people’s stories so that when someone sees that little dash between two dates, they know there was an entire life behind it.

A life worth remembering.