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If. . .
15 years ago
If I thought I could FIND a job and continue to suport myself. . .
I would not be going to school.
I do not learn well in a school environment.
I have no drive to participate in school-based activities.
I test well but I do not do my homework-
I can do my homework.
I do not because of ???? (it's been that way since ~8th grade)
I'm interested in learning, I just.. can't do the school system of things-
especially this 16-week-semester crap..
I work okay the first 6-8 weeks and then just NO MORE DRIVE after that. it's not exciting, it's not interesting, nothing.
I'm on the verge of being kicked out of a community college, and i don't care
Now.. I'm not -lazy- per se.
I don't do much house work but I spend a lot of time working.
I like to work-
i ENJOY work.
I like yard work (the manly kind) and I -will- do things around the house, granted I'm asked to do it.
I do my art because I expect to make money off of it someday.
I do it because I don't want to leave the realization of my worlds in the hands of others, as well, but many of my projects I do hope to be able to sell.
I do your art because you are paying me.
I work. . .
I work because I -LIKE- it.
I -like- to work.
Not busywork. I HATE busywork.
I like DOING things.
Things that work toward some sort of goal or for the benefit of something.
I like to work with my hands.
I want to learn how to fix and build and weld and work.
I want to -DO- something, i want to WORK.
I love my job.
I'm a locksmith, and I LOVE MY JOB.
It's this eternal puzzle, opening and fixing and installing and changing things.
For three days at the end of the week I work for on average 5 hours a day (depending on how many work orders we get) and do something I actually really like.
AND ALSO GET PAID.
this.
this is what I want to do.
WORK.
FOR ANYONE.
DOING ANYTHING.
of course, it's nigh on impossible to find a job. . .
Dad doesn't like my work ethic enough to let me work full-time for him, and he wants me to keep going to school-
as in, if i leave school, I might be out of a job, too.
. . .
I guess we'll see. . .
but here's hoping.
I would not be going to school.
I do not learn well in a school environment.
I have no drive to participate in school-based activities.
I test well but I do not do my homework-
I can do my homework.
I do not because of ???? (it's been that way since ~8th grade)
I'm interested in learning, I just.. can't do the school system of things-
especially this 16-week-semester crap..
I work okay the first 6-8 weeks and then just NO MORE DRIVE after that. it's not exciting, it's not interesting, nothing.
I'm on the verge of being kicked out of a community college, and i don't care
Now.. I'm not -lazy- per se.
I don't do much house work but I spend a lot of time working.
I like to work-
i ENJOY work.
I like yard work (the manly kind) and I -will- do things around the house, granted I'm asked to do it.
I do my art because I expect to make money off of it someday.
I do it because I don't want to leave the realization of my worlds in the hands of others, as well, but many of my projects I do hope to be able to sell.
I do your art because you are paying me.
I work. . .
I work because I -LIKE- it.
I -like- to work.
Not busywork. I HATE busywork.
I like DOING things.
Things that work toward some sort of goal or for the benefit of something.
I like to work with my hands.
I want to learn how to fix and build and weld and work.
I want to -DO- something, i want to WORK.
I love my job.
I'm a locksmith, and I LOVE MY JOB.
It's this eternal puzzle, opening and fixing and installing and changing things.
For three days at the end of the week I work for on average 5 hours a day (depending on how many work orders we get) and do something I actually really like.
AND ALSO GET PAID.
this.
this is what I want to do.
WORK.
FOR ANYONE.
DOING ANYTHING.
of course, it's nigh on impossible to find a job. . .
Dad doesn't like my work ethic enough to let me work full-time for him, and he wants me to keep going to school-
as in, if i leave school, I might be out of a job, too.
. . .
I guess we'll see. . .
but here's hoping.
Although, some places don't like volunteers because they are a liability if they get hurt helping out :/ They prefer interns with a college behind them to accept anything that goes wrong :(
But you have to realize that in order to get anywhere you WANT your life to be at, you need to trudge through the bullshit that makes you wanna throw a computer out the window. It's just a hoop to see if you're really wanting to be where you say you do.
I love working too, but to do any jobs that I love most, I need additional schooling. I also really want to join the Oregon Marching Band, but that also requires me to be in school...
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH US!? D:
Turns out sometimes my outrageous delusions are about spot on with reality. Whodathunkit.
But really the degree is just a nifty piece of paperwork that CAN open up one of the many gates to getting a good job. A degree alone will NOT get you a job.
The only reason places want degree these days is to suggest you can learn, study and teach yourself as necessary, especially over abstract concepts. Because these days just about every certification has an insanely over the top theoretical concept for safety purposes. Several hundred pages of stuff you would NEVER need to know, to be able to do the job or operate the equipment. Even say automatic rifles in the military.
It's not rocket science to figure out how to turn a safety and pull a trigger. It takes serious effort to learn all the proper safety drills for loading/unloading a weapon and dealing with stoppages. And you still wouldn't need to know how a gas-operated weapon works to reload the chamber and store pressure for the release of the firing pin.
My only way through college was last minute studying, to create artificial stress because I function well under high stress conditions to get stuff done.