“Do you like cupcakes?” “Of course I do. Everyone does.”

It was my senior year at Duke, 2004, and I didn’t understand the line of questioning from my career counselor. Already concerned my English major might not pave a career path of gold, I displayed my annoyance at the delicious digression. “Find your niche,” he explained. “Some slice of an industry for which you have talent, perhaps baking. Then apply …