Hey Dad, since you READ this...
Since I’m a graphic art drop-out, I decided to make a chart of my life as of now using pictures. I drew a SarahBlob standing at a cross-road with two signs marked Easy and Hard.
SarahBlob has two roads to take right now. She can take the easy but-far-less-beneficial way out by getting a job in Civil Service, working full-time, getting a car, doing art on the side, making a portfolio, and trying to get into a Graphic art job later…Or…she can take the more difficult but beneficial road and go back to college….
I looked at the two options before me, and I weighed them out and made a list. And then it hit me.
I don’t want to work full-time yet.
When people asked me what I wanted to do with my life when I was younger, I would always answer “go to college and get a degree in art.” There was a gap between the time I was eighteen, and the time I was twenty-three/four that was spent solely being a college student that worked part-time. There’s a reason why after I dropped the college idea, I’ve been staggering around in complete confusion for so long. It’s because I never had a plan beyond that.
Post-college, the simple solution was to get a job with a killer portfolio of Sarah Awesome.
After not being in college for a few months, I’ve grown to miss the structure, the homework, and feeling like I was getting something accomplished. For the love of God, nothing was difficult. I just didn’t try 90% of the time. Had I exerted minimal effort, I would have passed many-a class. It’s not that I can’t do school. It’s that I found no motivation after a while because everything felt inane and there was a plethora of social drama that vexed the hell out of me daily.
I’m gunna make a side-note and say that Michael Aldridge finds it funny that I use words like “plethora” and “vex,” and many other assorted dollar words within a sentence. He apparently finds humor in my being articulate. Yippie?
I think what I plan on doing now is this: Going back on October 15th and taking the 2nd 8 week deal. I’ll retake the ten hours of classes I failed (due to lack of classing) last semester and then start fresh in Spring ‘08 with a standard 15/16 hours. Based on what Sarah Gowdy told me simply getting an Associate’s degree should be only one more year or so of nothing but art and one math. I think my general classes were supposed to finish off last semester before I was to start cramming studio classes in there.
I’ve pussy-footed enough. It’s time to get back on track.
SarahBlob has two roads to take right now. She can take the easy but-far-less-beneficial way out by getting a job in Civil Service, working full-time, getting a car, doing art on the side, making a portfolio, and trying to get into a Graphic art job later…Or…she can take the more difficult but beneficial road and go back to college….
I looked at the two options before me, and I weighed them out and made a list. And then it hit me.
I don’t want to work full-time yet.
When people asked me what I wanted to do with my life when I was younger, I would always answer “go to college and get a degree in art.” There was a gap between the time I was eighteen, and the time I was twenty-three/four that was spent solely being a college student that worked part-time. There’s a reason why after I dropped the college idea, I’ve been staggering around in complete confusion for so long. It’s because I never had a plan beyond that.
Post-college, the simple solution was to get a job with a killer portfolio of Sarah Awesome.
After not being in college for a few months, I’ve grown to miss the structure, the homework, and feeling like I was getting something accomplished. For the love of God, nothing was difficult. I just didn’t try 90% of the time. Had I exerted minimal effort, I would have passed many-a class. It’s not that I can’t do school. It’s that I found no motivation after a while because everything felt inane and there was a plethora of social drama that vexed the hell out of me daily.
I’m gunna make a side-note and say that Michael Aldridge finds it funny that I use words like “plethora” and “vex,” and many other assorted dollar words within a sentence. He apparently finds humor in my being articulate. Yippie?
I think what I plan on doing now is this: Going back on October 15th and taking the 2nd 8 week deal. I’ll retake the ten hours of classes I failed (due to lack of classing) last semester and then start fresh in Spring ‘08 with a standard 15/16 hours. Based on what Sarah Gowdy told me simply getting an Associate’s degree should be only one more year or so of nothing but art and one math. I think my general classes were supposed to finish off last semester before I was to start cramming studio classes in there.
I’ve pussy-footed enough. It’s time to get back on track.