Hello all! I know it has been a while since I last posted
due to the incredibly hectic schedule I had at the end of the school year. So
without further ado I would like to begin…
On Planning for the future:
High school is overwhelming at times, which is scary because
at this time it is readily apparent that the real trouble doesn't start until
after graduation… oh boy. I appreciate that the school administrators are
simply concerned for or future and that is why they force us to take so many
career oriented classes, but honestly for me that has been the hardest part of
school. This is not because these classes are exceedingly difficult (in all
honesty they are guaranteed A’s), but rather because they are meant to help us
make the overwhelming decision on what it is we would like to do for the rest
of our lives. Granted there really is no pressure on us to make actual
decisions in the classroom setting, I began to realize just how daunting of a
task growing up really is.
Errr, well actually I have… kind of. You see I have this bad
habit where I decide that I definitely want to do something, and sticking by
the plan whole heartedly… for approximately two months at best. To pull an example
from the nerdier recesses of the internet I most definitely want to be a floral anthropological historian one day (this is false) and the next I have decided
that I like my prospect more as a professional career fabricator (that is one
who creates fake jobs for a living). While these are both utterly ridiculous
concepts the reality of my wild fluctuations in interests has presented itself
as a problem. What does one do when he could find himself loving certain
aspects of almost any job but hating the bulk of most? Do I simply decide to
search for contentment by finding the job I hate least? I hope not, because I
refuse to simply settle for finding a career based on merely how tolerable I find it. So
what than is my next step? I for one have decided to explore just what it is
that I really enjoy, and you know what my interests have never really changed,
they are just numerous, and quite frankly varied. Here it is me, in a list:
- I find computers fascinating, but am most content outdoors
- Paradoxically my love for the outdoors leads me to love technology more, I need balance
- I enjoy creativity and inventiveness, in writing and creating physical objects
- Often I am incapable of completing a project in writing or mechanical invention without first taking a break to pursue the other hobby
- I love people
- Paradoxically I simultaneously hate dealing with them
- I cannot be placed at a desk and told to work, I need movement and I need freedom
My list is
far from complete I, like everyone else, am incredibly complex and you know
what? I am no closer to finding my dream job, but guess what I still have two
years of high school. So if you had to describe yourself in under 10 bullet points, how would you do it?
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