this can't be it.
i moved to california with the desire to go to grad school, for art, and maybe be a college professor. maybe.. a big maybe.. even a fine artist. of course those do go hand in hand now. but the more time i spend out of school, the less i feel sure of what it is that i want to do. i'll always be an artist, but a practicing, career bound artist is a different story. i think about going into biology, or earth science, conservation, anything to do with finding ways to preserve the earth, and our sources. i want to learn things that i can take over seas to the developing world that really needs the help. in america we take so much for granted. on the news they were suggesting way of helping out the coase especially since its earth day tomorrow. Suggestions like, don't run the water while brushing your teath, turning lights off when you leave a room..... things that we were taught in grade school, how stupdi are we to not have stuck with them now? why is it that one day a year we are reminded that the earth will not last forever, and we need to do something to help save it? maybe its the constant PBS specials on the polar ice caps melting, leading to the eventual extinction of the poalr bear, or the rampant diseases in third world countries that we as americans haven't had to worry about for 20+ years....... i'm off on a tangent...
i'm just so sick of being another american consumer, buying and wasting till i die, or until there is nothing left. i want to be more. i want to do more. i keep throwing around the idea of peacecorps as a serious answer to the need to explore the world, learn from it, learn from other cultures, all while makeing a difference, to those who actually need it. no more dishing out latte after latte for businessmen and women. no more of the consistant robotic language, behind the confines of a register and a pastry case. i want to be the one helping a child be cured of night blindness, or malaria. i want to help woman in oppressive societies learn skills in banking and small business management. i want to help farmers in countries with bad water quality learn to refine the water they have to grow grow rich with nutrients for their families.
i just want to be more than what i am now, and say in two years from now that i've contributed something more to the human race.
so the answer to your gallop poll question is no, i don't see myself working for peets a year from now.
i hope to god, i'm not working here a year from now.
i'm just so sick of being another american consumer, buying and wasting till i die, or until there is nothing left. i want to be more. i want to do more. i keep throwing around the idea of peacecorps as a serious answer to the need to explore the world, learn from it, learn from other cultures, all while makeing a difference, to those who actually need it. no more dishing out latte after latte for businessmen and women. no more of the consistant robotic language, behind the confines of a register and a pastry case. i want to be the one helping a child be cured of night blindness, or malaria. i want to help woman in oppressive societies learn skills in banking and small business management. i want to help farmers in countries with bad water quality learn to refine the water they have to grow grow rich with nutrients for their families.
i just want to be more than what i am now, and say in two years from now that i've contributed something more to the human race.
so the answer to your gallop poll question is no, i don't see myself working for peets a year from now.
i hope to god, i'm not working here a year from now.