in december i will turn 28 and i think i should have a career. my friends seem to be heading towards careers. like benny will be a professor and arijit will be, um, a professor too. or work in a non-profit. or maybe for a government agency. dan will be the host of a japanese game show. elspeth will be a production designer. i feel like other people are focusing their interests and mine just keep expanding. for instance: yeah, so i want to fix that moped up and oh, i wonder if my landlord will let me have chickens. where can i take a bicycle frame building class?
so i am going to put this to a vote, here are my options as i see them:
1) lawyer (look dad, i put this one first.)
2) artist (look dad, i put this one second.)
3) elected official
4) guy who calls you periodically and asks for work
5) restauranteur (like i know anything about that)
6) ___________
post your compelling arguments in the comments section.
(extra credit: which of those options am i at the moment?)
(double extra credit: if you choose artist, what kind of artist should i be?)
(did you ever read those choose your own adventure books? this is more like a choose that guy's adventure book. that guy being me. the book being a blog. adventure being the most mundane bullshit ever. look, i tried to make this interesting. i do this all for you, all of this! what more do you want from me? oh quit my excruciatingly self-aware sniveling? never!)
Nate, first i was an ice cream scooper, then i built houses, then i worked a season at a ski resort, then i went to school for mining engineering, then i switched to Wood Science which i did for 6 years, then i switched to Hydrology which i've been doing for a year, i am thinking of switching to Climatology, or maybe Snow Science, or maybe i'm gonna move to Stewart British Columbia where the scope of wilderness is so expansive that making big decisions doesn't seem as important. I recently wrote Sam an e-mail telling him he should move there with me. Or that i was going to move to Vermont with him. I have no idea what i'm doing, neither do you. I have no advice for you cause in the end it's just gonna happen, like finishing the Hood to Coast, you just did it. Maybe you'll be forty without a job, maybe i'll be 40 with you.
ReplyDeleteHallo. My thought is that you are preparing for your future exactly as you should. Narrowing focus is all well and good but you are obviously happier dabbling in the pool o' life. So dabble away my friend and have faith you are doing exactly what you should. Bringing your shiny natestache to all the people of the land.
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