Random Thoughts About Saving the World
Three days are done and somehow they were my first three days of a "real" job. Okay, so what I'll be doing for the PIRGs isn't what many would consider a "real job.. But what I've been told is that it's still uber-important.
The first three weeks of my work with PIRG takes me around the country, training for what I'm going to do for the next year or so. It started in San Francisco, I'm in L.A. right now and then I'll be heading to Boston for the final week. That's really exciting.
Some of the stuff we've done, however, not so much. I am excited to start and I really do deep down believe in everything that I'll be doing in the fall. But most of it seems self-evident and some of it is just general talking points being hammered into our brains. So not too much fun. The next week should be awesome though, as we simulate what we'll be doing for a whole year and condense it into one week. (On a side note, I'm not that excited to be field training at the Southern Branch of the University of California).
Anyways, I have had this up-and-down feeling of that I don't think I'm the right person for this job. LIke I said before, I believe in our need to cut greenhouse emissions and to end poverty, I believe in cheap higher education and health care for all. I believe in getting kids out to vote. I believe in all those things. But if anything else, this job is about inspiring and motivating others to do stuff. I just don't think I am that: a motivator or an inspiration.
And in a job like this, my skepticism that is borderline cynicism, my penchant for too much wit and a whole shit-load of snark, I don't know if that fits into what these guys want.
So yeah, I'm excited, but I do have my reservations about this. Not about what we're doing, but about how I'll be able to fulfill these goals.
It'll be an interesting year.
The first three weeks of my work with PIRG takes me around the country, training for what I'm going to do for the next year or so. It started in San Francisco, I'm in L.A. right now and then I'll be heading to Boston for the final week. That's really exciting.
Some of the stuff we've done, however, not so much. I am excited to start and I really do deep down believe in everything that I'll be doing in the fall. But most of it seems self-evident and some of it is just general talking points being hammered into our brains. So not too much fun. The next week should be awesome though, as we simulate what we'll be doing for a whole year and condense it into one week. (On a side note, I'm not that excited to be field training at the Southern Branch of the University of California).
Anyways, I have had this up-and-down feeling of that I don't think I'm the right person for this job. LIke I said before, I believe in our need to cut greenhouse emissions and to end poverty, I believe in cheap higher education and health care for all. I believe in getting kids out to vote. I believe in all those things. But if anything else, this job is about inspiring and motivating others to do stuff. I just don't think I am that: a motivator or an inspiration.
And in a job like this, my skepticism that is borderline cynicism, my penchant for too much wit and a whole shit-load of snark, I don't know if that fits into what these guys want.
So yeah, I'm excited, but I do have my reservations about this. Not about what we're doing, but about how I'll be able to fulfill these goals.
It'll be an interesting year.