The Choice

I thought today of two people I encountered on my trip. Bot had made mid-career (actually abut 3/4 career) changes. One had more or less continued on the same path--moved from being a professor in Canada to a professor in China--while the other had gone in a radically different direction--changed from being a public servant in England to a diving instructor in Thailand. This is a choice I am going to have to make--whether to follow more or less the same route or to move in a radically different direction. I think of this as I contemplate applying for a position to teach at a university in China. It's obvious which way this would take me--but is it really where I want to go?