misunderstood - by Molly Mielke - Milky

I’m often asked how a film major like myself ended up in venture capital, and honestly I don’t think I’ll ever have a good answer to that question. There are through lines I could pull out for you, yes, but the only part that matters to me is that the work of the job has always felt right as I do it, and I think that fluidity is a feeling worth following. Watching influencers and applying to college seems to have programmed everyone my age with the belief that everything we do needs to be narratable as we’re doing it. What I found though is that making myself understandable all the time diluted the joy that lies instead in specificity — in concisely crafting a life that only needs to make sense to me. Allowing yourself to be misunderstood teaches you who values you for your personhood alone and how much you actually need from other people to feel sufficiently validated and socially satisfied. Being neither understood nor wanted is pure freedom, but obviously we social creatures don’t w

I’m often asked how a film major like myself ended up in venture capital, and honestly I don’t think I’ll ever have a good answer to that question. There are through lines I could pull out for you, yes, but the only part that matters to me is that the work of the job has always felt right as I do it, and I think that fluidity is a feeling worth following. Watching influencers and applying to college seems to have programmed everyone my age with the belief that everything we do needs to be narratable as we’re doing it. What I found though is that making myself understandable all the time dilute