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The following is more for me than anything, it’s pretty boring in all honesty and I wouldn’t recommend reading it unless my inner thoughts are of high interest to you. That said, if you do decide to suffer through it and have something to add, please feel free to comment.
So, the last time I updated I said I would be in Columbia for a month. That was two and a half months ago and yet here I sit, in Columbia, South Carolina. I’m still here because a future has been laid out in front of me that is just too damned promising to pass up, I think. My job is relatively easy, especially if viewed in a work/salary ratio and it’s only going to get better, that is unless I do something remarkably stupid, which in my case is not out of the question. It’s not out of the question because something is bothering me. Do I take this gilded future and ride the gravy train to almost guarantied riches or do I cast this aside and strive to become a professor of history which has been my dream since I was old enough to realize that being an astronaut was a bit too long of a long shot? It is a classic case of heart versus head and I am truly taken aback by the shear scope of the decision.
So, the last time I updated I said I would be in Columbia for a month. That was two and a half months ago and yet here I sit, in Columbia, South Carolina. I’m still here because a future has been laid out in front of me that is just too damned promising to pass up, I think. My job is relatively easy, especially if viewed in a work/salary ratio and it’s only going to get better, that is unless I do something remarkably stupid, which in my case is not out of the question. It’s not out of the question because something is bothering me. Do I take this gilded future and ride the gravy train to almost guarantied riches or do I cast this aside and strive to become a professor of history which has been my dream since I was old enough to realize that being an astronaut was a bit too long of a long shot? It is a classic case of heart versus head and I am truly taken aback by the shear scope of the decision.