Consider dreams and aspirations
Having a dream is alot like having all-time favorite films, books, restaurants, cousins, or used cars: indecisiveness prevents these from being found out. Possibly, in an ideal state, these dreams and yearnings exist untouched, and possibly untouchable, by the human consciousness and centre of speech. Forgive the phenomenological diversion, but it's hard for me to fathom that some people have all-time favorites and others don't: watch someone buy food and drink after a good, profitable day (especially if it breaks up a run of losing days) and their overworked superego will give way to their carnal desire for something that they can't help but enjoy.
What do I want to do in life? Not sure. Importing beer or wine would be nice, but those are difficult jobs to have if you're not an insider in those countries that do it, notably, European countries. Writing would be great, or maybe not, it could be terrible. I'm dating a writer who, in spite of landing a book deal with movie and tv options, has told me that she would like to return to film with writing on the side, but she's not 100% on that to be her future. More than that, I've always held writers a bit circumspect. Why do you want to have both your career and hobby based on enscribing thoughts, opinions, and imaginations? Seems a bit self-obsessed.
At any rate, I'm surrounded by such wonderful friends that I've never felt so loved or complete before. It's good that my parents don't have this blog because that might hurt their feelings. Regardless, everyone is giving me advice and alot of it is great (and some of it visible in this blog in the comments section) and points to the future with their belief that I can do great things. One friend in particular, who lacks in neither cynicism or talent, pointed me to her very own company, a noted national newspaper. Their own internal classefieds reveal tons of writing jobs and, what's more, open up worlds of possibilities. After all, where there are open positions for reporters, a notably difficult position to get, not to mention, keep, there must be possibilities for freelance work. Why not send some of my former travelogues, heavily edited, to these guys? The worst they can say is "no," and slightly less worse, "not today." At the very least, I'd have a story to tell people.
I have reservations about journalists and their lives as well. It becomes clear that the journalist is the social butterfly for whom people are mere mouthpieces of gossip and expert-sounding advice to be used to further their own career. It would be unethical for a journalist to pay a source, but why should anyone talk to a journalist if they're not getting something in return? If, for instance, I could talk to a journalist enough so that everyone above me at my company were fired, making me president, that would benefit me, I suppose, but then I'd spend my life finding 14,000 replacements to hire. Don't get me wrong, I love spending my free time socializing, but I'm pretty convinced that it's vacuous and not the gateway to key inside sources that tell people how the world really works. I suppose that a "good" journalist, read, a reliable one, holds a few lifelong tenets, such as
"[the current presidential administration] is (pick one: good/bad), and that's so for [the very reasons that the administration tells us], therefore, I'm going to interview [three people: someone who could be identified as on the inside that agrees with you, someone that the public knows and that will prove your point, and someone from a foundation of sorts] because they're intractably connected to the facts, which is why I got into journalism."
Can I work so hard that I alienate everyone around me in order to achieve this? Because I don't hold tenets like that (while, at the same time, holding nearly unwavering tastes) I think I would find it miserable, yet very sociable. Well, at any rate, I should give it the college try (even though I graduated a while ago, I'm still making college tries) to get my writing published in the best outlet I can. Start at the top, work my way down, similar to the admissions process that I, admittedly, never participated in, taking the "easy way in" to KU.
Thanks for all the support, stories about amazing jobs to come.
Wells
What do I want to do in life? Not sure. Importing beer or wine would be nice, but those are difficult jobs to have if you're not an insider in those countries that do it, notably, European countries. Writing would be great, or maybe not, it could be terrible. I'm dating a writer who, in spite of landing a book deal with movie and tv options, has told me that she would like to return to film with writing on the side, but she's not 100% on that to be her future. More than that, I've always held writers a bit circumspect. Why do you want to have both your career and hobby based on enscribing thoughts, opinions, and imaginations? Seems a bit self-obsessed.
At any rate, I'm surrounded by such wonderful friends that I've never felt so loved or complete before. It's good that my parents don't have this blog because that might hurt their feelings. Regardless, everyone is giving me advice and alot of it is great (and some of it visible in this blog in the comments section) and points to the future with their belief that I can do great things. One friend in particular, who lacks in neither cynicism or talent, pointed me to her very own company, a noted national newspaper. Their own internal classefieds reveal tons of writing jobs and, what's more, open up worlds of possibilities. After all, where there are open positions for reporters, a notably difficult position to get, not to mention, keep, there must be possibilities for freelance work. Why not send some of my former travelogues, heavily edited, to these guys? The worst they can say is "no," and slightly less worse, "not today." At the very least, I'd have a story to tell people.
I have reservations about journalists and their lives as well. It becomes clear that the journalist is the social butterfly for whom people are mere mouthpieces of gossip and expert-sounding advice to be used to further their own career. It would be unethical for a journalist to pay a source, but why should anyone talk to a journalist if they're not getting something in return? If, for instance, I could talk to a journalist enough so that everyone above me at my company were fired, making me president, that would benefit me, I suppose, but then I'd spend my life finding 14,000 replacements to hire. Don't get me wrong, I love spending my free time socializing, but I'm pretty convinced that it's vacuous and not the gateway to key inside sources that tell people how the world really works. I suppose that a "good" journalist, read, a reliable one, holds a few lifelong tenets, such as
"[the current presidential administration] is (pick one: good/bad), and that's so for [the very reasons that the administration tells us], therefore, I'm going to interview [three people: someone who could be identified as on the inside that agrees with you, someone that the public knows and that will prove your point, and someone from a foundation of sorts] because they're intractably connected to the facts, which is why I got into journalism."
Can I work so hard that I alienate everyone around me in order to achieve this? Because I don't hold tenets like that (while, at the same time, holding nearly unwavering tastes) I think I would find it miserable, yet very sociable. Well, at any rate, I should give it the college try (even though I graduated a while ago, I'm still making college tries) to get my writing published in the best outlet I can. Start at the top, work my way down, similar to the admissions process that I, admittedly, never participated in, taking the "easy way in" to KU.
Thanks for all the support, stories about amazing jobs to come.
Wells
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