As a kid I remember my folks saying that if we didn't like the way things were, "There's the door!" Teenagers don't like to hear that but it's probably good advice. It prods the kids to be thinking about leaving someday and what the future will hold for them. Often a boss will remind an employee how lucky he is to work for them, and if he doesn't like it, “There's the door!”. We are all looking for new opportunities but many times we have to walk through a door to get there.
As both my son and son in law have graduated they are thinking about "the door" to their futures; leaving school and academia, tests and papers, projects and the like - what kind of jobs they will be entering into, and how they will approach them, they will be looking at how their skills and acquired knowledge will fit into someone else' vision and/or needs. There are other options as well, but whether one is self employed or employed by someone else, "the door" is there to be opened, as they say.
I'm so happy for my kids and their bright futures. (I will have to admit selfishly though that I tried never to use the door analogy with my kids 'cause I never wanted them to leave!)
