Continuing to Dream

Listening to my students talk about their visions for life after college got me thinking about my own dreams, past and present.

"There are only two types of jobs in the world," the Argentine writer Hernán Casciari said in a 2017 essay. "Those that existed back when we were still pure, and those that didn't."

In Eden, there were cartoonists and cabinet makers but no policemen or soccer referees. The noble professions—clown, baker, carpenter—are tethered to the most basic human nee…