Like the wordsmithy magic I learned to pull in AP World History to make a random collection of facts tie back into a single idea, your calling is what pulls together strands of your life that seem at the time to be scattered and meaningless.
My journey since college has been anything but linear. When people ask me about the past few years, I either give a majorly abridged version or a laundry list of short term jobs that add up to me looking like an absolute commitment-phobe.