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What if people's purpose is exactly what they are doing right now? Even if they don't like it and think there's something better they could be doing? What if everyone's purpose is to accept and surrender to where they ended up instead of ditching their job because of some ideas on a web site? What if someone's purpose is to be stuck in a job they judge and hate but still keep doing it? That could be someone's purpose. I know it's not what Steve wrote about. Find our true calling, etc... Sure look for cooler possibilities - but I think some people's purpose ends up being just what they are doing which might be a societal function - and whether they judge it or not is also part of their purpose.
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A friend of mine told me something like this too. I don't know why some people consider personal development not good for everyone. It's not about achieving someone else's goals, but your own - whatever you want.
As I said - I could like to be a farmer - but a farmer with purpose.
I believe we are all part of a greater whole - the Universe, the Tao, God, the Force - and this force wants to grow, or it wants each of us to grow and identify with it eventually, which means Enlightenment. The Universe has split itself into so many parts just for the theater of it all, not for its bits (which are us humans) to remain for ever engaged in this game we take much to serious, which is life - especially this modern, complicated one with jobs and conspiracies and insecurity.
I once found an amazing explanation (that confirmed my thoughts) in a book on Yoga (which is a "science" designed to speed up and enhance the Enlightenment process) but I'm not going to reproduce it here since not everybody believes this "stuff".