Friday, June 03, 2005
What Is Up With That?!
So here i am on the job hunt, or more specifically, on the hunt for the path that i shall head down as a future career goal and everytime i wake up in the morning excited about a new epiphany I've had about what i could study that will excite and inspire me, i do research on the topic and in about five minutes and i am depressed and back at square one.
I have come up with a theory. The careers that pay well and are easier to attain are the fields and tasks that nobody really wants to do. Seriously. In the event that you lucked out in life and you actually, truly want/enjoy/excel at any of these types of jobs then you are set. If Accounting makes your soul soar, if exterminating critters turns your crank, if fixing computer networks make your heart sing then you have my total envy. Take Jordan for instance. He loves to design and he is good at it. But the fact that he could design was a BONUS when he was hired at communicopia.net. He was indespensable because he is good at and actually somewhat enjoys doing the crap that no one else wants to do and that is the back end coding and structuring. He is lucky because he doesn't abhor this aspect of design and so he is going to be OK. He can use the less creative skills to get him in the door and then work his way into primarily using his more creative skills. Is this what we all need to do?
The things i am great at do not pay well. Or, at least, being payed well for them is very dependant on starting your own business doing them and then having that business prosper. Not entirely easy and fun. I could go back to school and train for something new, but the stuff that gets me excited at the thought of studying has low employment rates after graduation and pay pretty poorly. The other stuff that i could study and do and make good money at really don't get my mojo going.
And so i sit here stuck. Stuck, stuck, stuck. Even with Cynthia, the stuff that she always wants to give me for work (and i do appreciate that she is always trying to get me work) is the stuff that she - and everybody else - doesn't want to do. It is the crap part. It pays and it is available and i could probably base a lifetime of work around it, but it is about as interesting to me as bellybutton lint. Gawd. I don't know what to do. What do i do?
Guess i could curl my hair. That at least doesn't take alot of impossible choice making.
I have come up with a theory. The careers that pay well and are easier to attain are the fields and tasks that nobody really wants to do. Seriously. In the event that you lucked out in life and you actually, truly want/enjoy/excel at any of these types of jobs then you are set. If Accounting makes your soul soar, if exterminating critters turns your crank, if fixing computer networks make your heart sing then you have my total envy. Take Jordan for instance. He loves to design and he is good at it. But the fact that he could design was a BONUS when he was hired at communicopia.net. He was indespensable because he is good at and actually somewhat enjoys doing the crap that no one else wants to do and that is the back end coding and structuring. He is lucky because he doesn't abhor this aspect of design and so he is going to be OK. He can use the less creative skills to get him in the door and then work his way into primarily using his more creative skills. Is this what we all need to do?
The things i am great at do not pay well. Or, at least, being payed well for them is very dependant on starting your own business doing them and then having that business prosper. Not entirely easy and fun. I could go back to school and train for something new, but the stuff that gets me excited at the thought of studying has low employment rates after graduation and pay pretty poorly. The other stuff that i could study and do and make good money at really don't get my mojo going.
And so i sit here stuck. Stuck, stuck, stuck. Even with Cynthia, the stuff that she always wants to give me for work (and i do appreciate that she is always trying to get me work) is the stuff that she - and everybody else - doesn't want to do. It is the crap part. It pays and it is available and i could probably base a lifetime of work around it, but it is about as interesting to me as bellybutton lint. Gawd. I don't know what to do. What do i do?
Guess i could curl my hair. That at least doesn't take alot of impossible choice making.
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