Oprah Explains the Difference Between a Career and a Calling | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

your real job in life is to figure out what it is you are called to do and you use a job until you can figure out what the calling is because a job is necessary to survive and you live in a world where you so in my early days I had a job I had a job until I could figure out what it was really what that gave my life its purpose and meaning and I gotten demoted in my job in Baltimore as an anchorwoman because as they hired me and then they decided I was the wrong color and I was the wrong size and I was the wrong you know I had lots of problems and they were trying to take me off the air and I was making $22,000 a year I thought I was in heaven because I was making my age and my dream at the time was gale and I used to say can you imagine if you're 40 and you're making 40,000 would that be it so that was as big as my dream was just to make my age and then I did this they they put me on a talk show one morning because they didn't know what to do with me and and I was interviewing the Carvel ice cream man there's a local talk show and Benny from Benny who was mrs. Chancellor's Butler or something on all my children anyway my soap opera star who was in the lead star remember Benny Benny and the iock Carvel ice cream in that's how I cut my teeth and I finished that show so it's not about the stars themselves or whoever the guests were but I felt like this is what I'm supposed to do all these years have been misplaced in news because I couldn't relate to news I was a news reporter and I'd be out on the stories and I'd be crying with the people and I felt that I was exploiting the people with news I couldn't you know put a microphone in people's face when they were going through tragedies and stuff I just was so emotional I was always getting little notes from my boss about cut that out you need to stuff so but the moment I did that talk-show I felt like oh I can be myself and that was August 14th 1978 and that was the beginning of fulfilling the calling and so since that time since that time August 14th 1978 I never had a problem with energy now when I was working in news I used to be exhausted all the time exist exhausted all the time because I hated it and the reason I didn't quit is because I'm not a quitter number one and because my father was like good and I quit that job you making $22,000 who's gonna play a black one between two thousand dollars a year you never gonna make make that kind of money again you better save half of it so I was reluctant to quit and think about doing something else because I thought okay everybody wants to be an anchorwoman at the time that was like supposedly a big deal being an anchorwoman so I thought okay I won't I'll just stay with this until I can figure out what is the best thing to do and interestingly enough I was applying for what I wanted to do I felt like I needed to be able to talk and at the time the only thing I was available was was a like Good Morning America or Thursday show so I called up this agent and I asked if he would accept my tape because I wanted to be like a substitute for Bryant Gumbel and he said to me there was only gonna be one Bryant Gumbel and so there wasn't gonna be another one that they weren't gonna know another black person on that show he said that to me and interestingly enough he called me last week because somebody else mentions me they say he never said it but he did say it and I said to him you know what if you ever told that you never forget it if somebody ever says to you if you're ever rejected in that way you never ever ever forget it I said but it's okay I did okay you did okay it's all right it's all right but the answer to your question is if you can find what is your passion if you find what you love you never get tired or if you do get tired if you you're fueled by the energy of your work so I know that I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing at this time I also know that what this show can do in terms of being a voice in changing the world it's just the beginning of what this show can do it's fun to do things like this but and it's necessary to do things like this in order to be able to do the bigger grander things to change what happens to to the face of children in Africa for example what happens to education with kids in this country so I believe that that what has happened to me is really the beginning of the greater passion to come but if you find out what you're supposed to do and you know what you're supposed to do by how it feels you know people wait on the voice of God to be some of the Moses and burning bush I think that was only Bible talk you know because he doesn't come to burning bushes for people he comes through your heart he speaks through your heart through your feelings and so you know what if you're doing the right thing if it feels like it's right to you and when you hit the thing that feels right when you know it's the right thing you would you know it's right because it gives you your juice and you know it's right because you would do it for nothing you would do it for nothing and find a way to be able just to do it in order to be able to continue that's how you know you're doing what you're supposed to be doing what's that back hi youtubers I'm excited to give you an update about our own YouTube channel now you can find new videos every day they're the kind of videos it'll make you look at life differently they may even make you laugh a little bit subscribe to the own channel today and we'll see you on YouTube

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Length: 6min 4sec (364 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 13 2017