Disconnect
Considering the amount of complaining that went into staying in Houston for the summer, I thought that I was going to be miserable. But honestly, if given the option right now, I would choose to extend my job a little longer, and stay back here for another month. I really enjoy what I do, I like the people I work with, I like hanging out with my Houston-friends, and I like my family. The only things that I really miss about Austin are the people that are back over there.
And to be honest . . . I don't really miss school, as much as it pains me to say it. I enjoy it while I'm going through it (most of the time), but working is just so nice. I really like having a full-time job that is not just bitch-work and requires real thinking. It is just so great to come home and be done with it all; to have my time off all to myself, rather than having to devote it to academic endeavors (most of which I feel are really useless resume-builders, or otherwise BS-y). When I graduate, if I can just find a job that I enjoy that will intellectually stimulate me, I will be one happy girl. Well, and it would be nice for them to send me back to school to get a grad degree [Pointless interjection-my boss told me this story of a former colleague of his back from his Enron days. Apparently, Enron offered this guy a deal whereby they paid for him to take two years off and go to Wharton (only the best business school in the nation), and also guaranteed him a six-figure job upon graduation (plus a $12,000 bonus), in exchange for him signing a contract stating that he would remain with Enron for three years. Not bad, I'm thinking . . . not bad a'tall.] And to be paid reasonably well. Sigh.
Perhaps one other thing that I do miss is Austin's liberal-ness, which lies in stark contrast to most of the rest of Texas. I think that the most conservative people that I have met through my job all have roots in rural Texas
I remember a conversation I once had with Andrew Potter where he asked me whether I realized just how conservative Texas was, even though I was attending the most liberal university in the state. He went to Lewis & Clark in Portland, and he told me that it was a shock to see just how insular and conservative the community was in which he had formerly lived. Strange, that . . . I like to think of myself as "not-southern," but I have lived in Texas for almost 9.5 years now, and it would be silly of me to deny that most of my formative years were spent either in Austin or Houston. I wonder how differently I would have turned out if I had been raised somewhere else . . . I wonder how conservative/liberal I actually am . . . I wonder how I will see myself years from now, when I have the benefit of a wiser, more experienced perspective.
And now, dear friends, it is time for bed . . . full day tomorrow!
And to be honest . . . I don't really miss school, as much as it pains me to say it. I enjoy it while I'm going through it (most of the time), but working is just so nice. I really like having a full-time job that is not just bitch-work and requires real thinking. It is just so great to come home and be done with it all; to have my time off all to myself, rather than having to devote it to academic endeavors (most of which I feel are really useless resume-builders, or otherwise BS-y). When I graduate, if I can just find a job that I enjoy that will intellectually stimulate me, I will be one happy girl. Well, and it would be nice for them to send me back to school to get a grad degree [Pointless interjection-my boss told me this story of a former colleague of his back from his Enron days. Apparently, Enron offered this guy a deal whereby they paid for him to take two years off and go to Wharton (only the best business school in the nation), and also guaranteed him a six-figure job upon graduation (plus a $12,000 bonus), in exchange for him signing a contract stating that he would remain with Enron for three years. Not bad, I'm thinking . . . not bad a'tall.] And to be paid reasonably well. Sigh.
Perhaps one other thing that I do miss is Austin's liberal-ness, which lies in stark contrast to most of the rest of Texas. I think that the most conservative people that I have met through my job all have roots in rural Texas
I remember a conversation I once had with Andrew Potter where he asked me whether I realized just how conservative Texas was, even though I was attending the most liberal university in the state. He went to Lewis & Clark in Portland, and he told me that it was a shock to see just how insular and conservative the community was in which he had formerly lived. Strange, that . . . I like to think of myself as "not-southern," but I have lived in Texas for almost 9.5 years now, and it would be silly of me to deny that most of my formative years were spent either in Austin or Houston. I wonder how differently I would have turned out if I had been raised somewhere else . . . I wonder how conservative/liberal I actually am . . . I wonder how I will see myself years from now, when I have the benefit of a wiser, more experienced perspective.
And now, dear friends, it is time for bed . . . full day tomorrow!