When Meredith Pickering was a kid, her idea of a dream job changed by the day-vet, inventor, doctor, whatever sounded cool. This fluctuation continued into her adult life. She tried a myriad of different career pursuits-starting a popular beauty blog, attending a year of teachers' college, working in marketing at a software company, and even landing a job as a project director at a non-profit charity-but none of them really stuck.