Finding your calling: a lifelong pull toward coaching and helping others

Executive overview

Some people discover their purpose not through deliberate career planning but through noticing a consistent pattern across every role they hold. This speaker recognised that across wildly different jobs — including as a master electrician — he always gravitated toward helping struggling people and teams.

The clearest sign of a calling is that you keep doing it anyway, in every context, without being asked.

A consistent pattern across roles

• Every job involved migrating toward struggling people or teams, regardless of the formal role.
• Even as a tradesman, he sought out the teams that needed help rather than the easier assignments.
• Coaching and teaching felt natural from his 20s onward — not a career pivot, but a throughline.
• He expects to continue doing it until the end of his life.