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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

What I want to be when I grow up.

As I begin yet again another new career (my 3rd since venturing from the warm safe protection of the collegian world) I realize that I have always envied people who grew up knowing what they wanted to be, those who at a early age would say “when I grow up I want to be…” I never had that, when I was a kid, I had no idea what even interested me. Of course I had He-Man, but even in elementary school, this did not seem like a realistic future career choice. And once I found out that the military in fact did not have motorcycles with a missile strapped to the side, G.I. Joe was no longer an option. I realize that very few people actually find employment in the field they chose when they were six, even so it must have had some influence on their choices later on in life. When it was time for me to choose a major in college all I knew was that I liked to argue about subjects I could effect very little change about, so I majored in political science. So it’s the age old story, boy goes to college, boy graduates college, boy can’t find a job, boy works at a pizza shop, boy finds a job, gets laid off job, boy reexamines his life as he collects unemployment and waits for a new opportunity to present itself.
Fortunately for me an opportunity did present itself, before I started hitting the bottle. But I can’t help but wonder, what the future holds from here. What opportunities are in store for me? Will I ever be at a job long enough to start putting money in a 401K?

Posted by
Matthew Byrd

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about doing your current career? Being a reporter.That is the problem with the paper and their willingness to pay, they will always get someone waiting to grow up.

November 7, 2007 3:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your honesty is refreshing! Most people I don't think know exactly what they want until they find it. I don't think it has much to do with growing up.

November 7, 2007 5:23 PM  
Blogger The Phoenix Files said...

In fact, I'm not a writer, I'm the online editor. Good to see the art of irony is alive and well.

Posted by
Matthew Byrd

November 8, 2007 9:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Matt,

Who needs to grow up? Remember those crazy kids from "Animal House"? I'll bet they never grew up.

Speaking of which, I hear 228 Productions is sponsoring a showing of "Animal House" at the Colonial Theatre on Sunday, December 16th, 2 pm.

$7 / ticket is way cheaper than a college education, and you can leave without feeling like "there goes seven years of college down the drain!"

~DTX

November 19, 2007 11:18 PM  

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