Thinking
Sunday, 22. March 2009, 23:35:17
After a discussion yesterday, I have come to the conclusion that I do not challenge myself enough. At the moment, I am just ‘chugging’ along and not going to enough effort to challenge myself.
I don’t know what I want to do after university. If I simply keep ‘chugging’ along, I may find ANY job behind a desk and become part of the ‘system’. The ‘system’ tells you that you have to get a job, go to your job in a metal box, do some work, drive home in the metal box, get married, have a child, decide on a paint colour for the child’s bedroom and paint test patches of 10 different shades of yellow on the wall (which is the event of the year), tell your children not to talk to strangers because everyone in this world is ‘out to get you’. I think we have the idea.
I do not want to be part of the system. Yes, most occupations do involve traveling from home to a place of employment in some kind of metal machine with wheels. The point is, I do not want to be stuck doing a job that I don’t like for two decades. Then, after twenty years, realizing that I had so much time on my hands and energy available, to find something that I really could have enjoyed doing for all those years.
Brainstorming
Travel: Flight attendant: I like to travel, am tall enough, can speak 1.5 languages, enjoy eating plane food, am also slim enough to fit through the aisles without bumping passengers. Tour guide? I enjoy walking around cities, meeting new people and have experience in being a tour guide/helping foreign people.
Baking: Work in a cake shop? I like cake and and have experience in customer service.
Languages: I enjoy helping non-English speakers with English. I could do a certificate in teaching English as a second language.
Volunteer work in a poor community:
I need to think some more...and try new things...and put more energy into useful things. This blog for example....I enjoy writing here, but I am not challenging myself in any way by writing about how boring my day was and then taking a bad photo of the bubblegum on the bottom of my shoe.
Is going on an exchange a challenge?
I think going back home to live with my parents will be more of a challenge.
If the above post did not make any sense, it is because it ias 12.34am
I don’t know what I want to do after university. If I simply keep ‘chugging’ along, I may find ANY job behind a desk and become part of the ‘system’. The ‘system’ tells you that you have to get a job, go to your job in a metal box, do some work, drive home in the metal box, get married, have a child, decide on a paint colour for the child’s bedroom and paint test patches of 10 different shades of yellow on the wall (which is the event of the year), tell your children not to talk to strangers because everyone in this world is ‘out to get you’. I think we have the idea.
I do not want to be part of the system. Yes, most occupations do involve traveling from home to a place of employment in some kind of metal machine with wheels. The point is, I do not want to be stuck doing a job that I don’t like for two decades. Then, after twenty years, realizing that I had so much time on my hands and energy available, to find something that I really could have enjoyed doing for all those years.
Brainstorming
Travel: Flight attendant: I like to travel, am tall enough, can speak 1.5 languages, enjoy eating plane food, am also slim enough to fit through the aisles without bumping passengers. Tour guide? I enjoy walking around cities, meeting new people and have experience in being a tour guide/helping foreign people.
Baking: Work in a cake shop? I like cake and and have experience in customer service.
Languages: I enjoy helping non-English speakers with English. I could do a certificate in teaching English as a second language.
Volunteer work in a poor community:
I need to think some more...and try new things...and put more energy into useful things. This blog for example....I enjoy writing here, but I am not challenging myself in any way by writing about how boring my day was and then taking a bad photo of the bubblegum on the bottom of my shoe.
Is going on an exchange a challenge?
I think going back home to live with my parents will be more of a challenge.
If the above post did not make any sense, it is because it ias 12.34am
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 25. March 2009, 21:53
I think it made sense, what you wrote!
All luck and happiness out there in the world will help you!
XxX
Anonymous # 26. March 2009, 13:57
Yeah, it definitely made sense. I feel the same way, but at least you have alternate ideas for what you'd like to do! :)