So, I recently came back from traveling some around the world and now it is time to really get serious about finding a job.  Since my major in university was a mixture of Liberal arts combined with a sprinkle of liberal history, it didn't leave me with any type of specific career goals.  I was always jealous of those people that studied something solid such as nursing or education.  There never seemed like there was much to think about.  Show up at a school or a hospital and say hello here I am, now give me a job with a good pension that will last until I am about 56 years old.  But then again thinking isn't so bad now and again and that is what I have been doing for the past few weeks trying desperately to come up with a job that might be suitable for me.  Of course it is a two way streak because even if I somehow think being a Broadway dancer is suitable for me I am in doubt that anymore besides maybe three people (my mom, dad, and grandma) would tend to agree with me.  So, now I turn to the internet as I have done here.  There are only so many hours you can spend revising your resume, editing the cover letters, and pressing send hoping for that call back.  So in between I decided to write about these events as they unfold.  Will I find job, probably.  Will I like it?  That is hard to say.

I often wonder about the amount of people in the world that dislike their jobs.  Do you think if I proposed to do a survey on this very subject someone would pay me for it?  I wonder if I would like that job.  Maybe before I get serious I should try and figure out the reasons for why I am looking for a job.  For anyone who has ever done programming in an educational setting; I worked as a camp counselor for some years, the first and most useful question to ask before proceeding is why I am planning this program, what do I want to achieve when I am finished?  It is a little different with a job because my parents, although wonderful and generous, have been more than ready for quite some time to stop helping me pay for food and clothing-small necessities in this world.  So, yes of course in this light a job is simply unavoidable once you have passed a certain stage.  If I could just put those necessities aside for a minute and start to think about what I want my goals to be after being at this job for half a year this brings up an entire new set of ideas, some real and some highly unattainable. 

Goals:

1. To help people in some way and to feel satisfaction with myself after doing it.
2. To walk into work and actually want to see the faces that will approach me early in the morning and sometimes, yet hopefully not into the late hours of the night.
3. To learn something new at least everyday, but will settle for once a week-and I don't mean how to repair a paper jam from the copy machine, actually learning things about people, the world, or any interesting facts that will make me feel smarter. 
4. To have responsibility and to feel challenged.  I do not want to feel that any 17 year old high school kid could be doing my job.  I also do not want to feel replaceable. 
5. To feel that somehow or someday what I do will help make this world a more positive place.