Conflicts between personal strengths and personal values

I came across this quotation from Peter Drucker:
“Many years ago, I too had to decide between my values and what I was doing successfully. I was doing very well as a young investment banker in London in the mid-1930s, and the work clearly fit my strengths. Yet I did not see myself making a contribution as an asset manager. People, I realized, were what I valued, and I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery. I had no money and no other job prospects. Despite the continuing Depression, I quit—and it was the right thing to do. Values, in other words, are and should be the ultimate test.”
While this quote can tend to glorify “quitting” business to go into “more humanitarian” endeavors, I think it speaks to something much more profound. If we are good or adequate at something it doesn’t mean we should get stuck in the rut of doing it if our heart is not also in it. I know it seems kind of fairy tale-ish, because some people don’t always have the option to re-orient their career or life. But, it does make me think that each of us was created to live and work in some manner according to not just our strengths, like the old Communist approach to athletics in which athletic kids were separated out by how their abilities matched up with particular sports, whether or not the kid had any desire to play the sport or not. It seems to me that our Maker takes great pleasure when we find that intersection in our lives of what we are really skilled at doing and what we view as a significant contribution to others.