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Jocko Podcast · 2025-04-28 · 11 min · 2,036 words

Jocko Underground: I'm Looking For Purpose In Life.

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This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 164, sitting with Echo Charles, going to provide some insight, hopefully, some courses of action for you all. What do we got? Let's get some questions from the from the troopers. Courses of action. Okay.

Jocko, I'm looking for purpose in my life. I want to help people and feel like I have aligned with my strengths as an individual to where my income is from is from something I really enjoy and I feel like I'm making a difference. I have a beautiful wife and one year old son and I work as a wildland firefighter. I enjoy the physicality of the job and the team aspect but I don't feel like it's my true purpose.

It's hard on my family to be gone for a good portion of the summer as well. I wanted this job because I want to make California safer and enhance the health of the forests. I'm taking forestry classes at a local college and I'm on the path to get a good job. Before my family Or my job as a firefighter, I had a dream to be a stand-up comedian.

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