Please help me talk some sense into my sister!

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The image appears very small, but it depicts on the left, "success, what people think it looks like" showing a straight line ascending from left to right, and on the right, "What it really looks like" a line twisting and curving back on itself, eventually rising from left to right.

Maybe it's okay to not always have a plan, or to even appear to be moving backwards. Not everyone is meant to find their life fulfillment in careers. Many find it in family and home, hobbies, spiritual enlightenment, etc. We still need trash collectors and low-level managers. Not everyone is ambitious. It's probably an anomalous thought to many on this forum, most of us are here because we are afflicted with some sort of ambition, but many people aren't.

There exists an Idle Society, where people trade tips on how to work as little as possible, in order to focus on "hobbies", such as gardening, hiking, etc. One person's definition of life work can be very different from someone else.

I'm not convinced that people are meant to do one thing for fifty years of their working lives, or that this decision must be made at age 18, or 22, or 45. Sometimes a job is just what you do so you can enjoy the others parts of your life, and that's okay. I personally would only tolerate it temporarily. I'm sure most on an education forum feel the same, but perhaps your sister is one of the former rather than the latter.