Life after college
I've spoken with a few people about this transition from college-life to work-life. It's weird. You go from having a very defined goal (graduating), with little markers and milestones to chart your progress, to a much more nebulous system. It's depressing at first (for me anyways), but in a subtle way. It's like too much freedom means I end up doing less, not more.
I guess that's pretty much accepted though. It's like creativity: you get much better results if you constrain yourself in some way. (Which by the way is exactly what Matthew Barney was exploring with his Drawing Restraint series. Art Plug!)
Really though, it's just a different set of rules. Zach and I had a long talk when we moved to San Diego about "Playing the Game." The idea that you need to understand a system and recognize how it works in order to succeed at it. That seems really basic, and it is, but I think it's something that people are largely ignorant of. Post-college life is a new set of rules, and I'm learning as I go. I've learned, for instance, that I have far less free time during the day. I'm slowly getting used to that. There's lots of other stuff too, like having an income, but I think I've covered the gist of the topic.
Least my observations seems too melancholic, let me add that things are going great. I really like my job, which is taking me to Madrid in two weeks, and DC is a fine city. But there will be more on this to come, hopefully during my free-time after work.
I guess that's pretty much accepted though. It's like creativity: you get much better results if you constrain yourself in some way. (Which by the way is exactly what Matthew Barney was exploring with his Drawing Restraint series. Art Plug!)
Really though, it's just a different set of rules. Zach and I had a long talk when we moved to San Diego about "Playing the Game." The idea that you need to understand a system and recognize how it works in order to succeed at it. That seems really basic, and it is, but I think it's something that people are largely ignorant of. Post-college life is a new set of rules, and I'm learning as I go. I've learned, for instance, that I have far less free time during the day. I'm slowly getting used to that. There's lots of other stuff too, like having an income, but I think I've covered the gist of the topic.
Least my observations seems too melancholic, let me add that things are going great. I really like my job, which is taking me to Madrid in two weeks, and DC is a fine city. But there will be more on this to come, hopefully during my free-time after work.