The Underpinning Thread of Career Choices

I'm always curious about this underpinning thread that emerges across people's career choices. And what do you think that looks like from dark futures to your study to write back to the early sci-fi book that you were given as a child? What's that common thread that kind of ties these things together? It kind of didn't want to be educated, right? Not educated in the traditional sense of read this book, do this exam, discuss this point. I'm very much the kid in the library reading the encyclopedia because that kind of like huge swathe of information let you actually draw your own conclusions and then draw points of interest between lots of different information. So it was sort of