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So now that I am in an office again (the reason why I started this thing in the first place) I am finding a lot more time to write up. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
Anyways, my job just gets better. Yesterday I learned how to plot charts with dividers and compasses and protractors. It made me feel like Magellan. And I think I'm discovering that somewhere down there I am a sailor at heart.
I'm also looking into the pilot's license because really that's always been the main objective. And I discovered Australia is the cheapest place to get a helicopter license and it really isn't that bad... I'll only have to save for three or four years on a great attorney's salary.
I don't know where I got this from or if I just made it up, but last night before I went to bed and I was thinking about this career and selling out and how I never want to work in an office and how a lot of my old classmates got into law school and will be joining the profession, anyways I thought:
"I would rather be an ordinary person who does extraoridinary things
Than an extraordinary person who does ordinary things"
Who doesn't right? But I know a lot of extraordinary people and they are doing the least creative things. Why? Why are the best of my generation selling out? Working in air conditioned offices? Living in the same cities with the same desire to visit third world countries and go to graduate school and save inner city school children from themeselves? Why does it seem like my generation got out of college with four or five options and all of them blow?
I want to build the obstacle courses for that show "Wipe-out"! I want to be a movie set caterer. I want work in a youth hostel in Canada. I want to fish for squid off the coast of Santa Barbara. Really I want to be a helicopter pilot for aerial photographers. Regardless, why isn't anyone doing this?
Class issues? School debt? Fear of breaking away (props Kelly Clarkson)? I dunno... thoughts?
Anyways, my job just gets better. Yesterday I learned how to plot charts with dividers and compasses and protractors. It made me feel like Magellan. And I think I'm discovering that somewhere down there I am a sailor at heart.
I'm also looking into the pilot's license because really that's always been the main objective. And I discovered Australia is the cheapest place to get a helicopter license and it really isn't that bad... I'll only have to save for three or four years on a great attorney's salary.
I don't know where I got this from or if I just made it up, but last night before I went to bed and I was thinking about this career and selling out and how I never want to work in an office and how a lot of my old classmates got into law school and will be joining the profession, anyways I thought:
"I would rather be an ordinary person who does extraoridinary things
Than an extraordinary person who does ordinary things"
Who doesn't right? But I know a lot of extraordinary people and they are doing the least creative things. Why? Why are the best of my generation selling out? Working in air conditioned offices? Living in the same cities with the same desire to visit third world countries and go to graduate school and save inner city school children from themeselves? Why does it seem like my generation got out of college with four or five options and all of them blow?
I want to build the obstacle courses for that show "Wipe-out"! I want to be a movie set caterer. I want work in a youth hostel in Canada. I want to fish for squid off the coast of Santa Barbara. Really I want to be a helicopter pilot for aerial photographers. Regardless, why isn't anyone doing this?
Class issues? School debt? Fear of breaking away (props Kelly Clarkson)? I dunno... thoughts?