I doubt that welders have to wake up early to study lease payments and valuation allowances of deferred tax assets. I also doubt that they have to write 12 page term papers. Welders only need to go to school for two years and then when they start working, they make as much or more than accountants with 4-year degrees.
True story.
Bonus feature: they get to BURN stuff!
Er- weld. But still.
All my life I've grown up to believe that all the "good" and stable jobs are jobs where I'll get to use my brain that's full of stuff that I acquired in college.
But sometimes I just get so TIRED of using my brain all day every day.
And during those times, I just want to have an occupation where there are assembly lines and noise and FIRE and metal and sparks and safety masks.
I suppose being a seamstress would satiate this handsy lust, too.
I'm at that point again during the semester where I just don't want to do it anymore.
I just want to throw all of financial aspects of the world into a paper shredder (or a welding fire, perhaps) and never look back.
Last semester, it happened around week 9.
It's only week 5.
And the more I come to realize I don't want to work in public accounting, the more my motivation for anything- work, studying, grad school, 4.0-keeping, degree-finishing, cooking- it all just goes away.
Hence, mein kampf.
I don't want to even submit a resume for Accounting Day because I'm afraid that I'll be badgered by firms that will call me up and say something like, "HEY! You're a NOOB! You want to have a job right out of school where you get to work 59 hours a week?"
It all just makes me want to curl up on the couch with some blueberry pancakes and play Little Big Planet.
I won't do something as extreme as welding, but I definitely want to like what I do.
And I do not like this.
Couldn't even lie to Caleb,
TWS
It will get better, it always does. When I reached that point in Graphic Design, I used one of my three absent days and ate a smoked turkey wrap with Robert at Lakeside. And one other day I just REALLLLLLLLY didn't feel like going, so I slept in and did some RCT. And it was good, and then I felt better.
ReplyDeleteI need some RCT in my life!!!!
DeleteI played today. It took much pleasuring Vista to make it work, but I did it. I did Icicle Worlds just for fun because it's my favorite. I'm currently in the process of building a castle, complete with moat! I built a really awesome car ride too. I called it "Mountains of Christmas". But I miss your naming cleverness. Remember "The Public Shell"? lolz
DeleteHaha- yes! I have a few good names up my sleeve.
DeleteLike- I want to make a wooden twisted coaster, paint it dark red and call it "THE BACONATOR" and then name a scrambled eggs thing "Spin Cycle" and then have a wooden mining coaster called "BOOM Town"!
I really wish we could get it to work on Windows 7.
I know how you feel and I find my position a little odd in that I code for work all the time and sometimes (dare I say it?) I honestly start to hate programming. Then I get a new coding project for something completely different and it's usually something quick and simple, but I love it. Maybe it is the fact that even though it is still coding, it is different. Maybe it is the fact that now that I am forced to do what I like it feels like a chore. In either case, no one expects a welder with an accounting degree. Just like no one expects an IT guy with a Psychology degree. Also the Spanish Inquisition.
ReplyDeleteJust some thoughts.