Workin' 8 - 5; Monday Thru Friday

[cloudiwolf]

So, I've been listening to a LOT of tech news and podcasts lately, and I feel like I've found my passion for technology again. Too bad the last great tech-anything I did was build my current Windows PC that's gathering dust at home (and sitting with three years worth of upgrades...). I feel like I've been chasing the wrong dream these last four

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Re: もう一度思い出したい！日本語の楽しさを

[ladyomnipotent]

My parents always assure me that education is never a waste of money, so even if both of us were to graduate college and never earn a penny for our Japanese skills, we'd have learned and experienced irreplacable things. A big one, for example, is being able to go to Japan and sort of understand what the heck is going on in that country! Also, the people we met (I would not have met David and you would not have met Tal) the good and bad times with learning a language and studying, the insight into another culture...etc. Anyway. I was gonna say that my feelings were not helped much when I talked to Forrest-sensei last semester and he basically told me that getting a stable job with Japanese is kind of a crapshoot. I'm really not into the whole freelance thing. That's one reason why I chose not to pursue writing as a career, because often you have to start with freelance stuff and it will probably take a while before you can become like, a columnist for a magazine or someone who can live off of selling novels. Besides that, I've realized that translating crap I don't care about makes me exhausted. I'd be cool with manga and stuff but obviously I will not be able to land a job in that right away, or ever.

I guess nothing is ever certain, but some things are more certain than others. And I'm not greedy, all I want is to be able to live a comfortable life supported by a job I at least sometimes enjoy. I think we should be willing to take as many different paths as needed in order to achieve happiness in our futures!