Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Career Day

I'm aware that all of this is a direct result of my bad day, but I'm not shy in saying i dislike my job a lot. I wouldn't say I hate it, hate is a strong word and emotion and it doesn't fit here. BUT I can't even tell you guys how inspired I am to go to grad school from going to my current job day after day. As I sat in a bad mood I thought of all the possible career roads I could skip down incase my professional job of owning the Carolina Panthers doesn't play out. Here are a few:
  • I really just want to be a sailor. I want to straight up be on a boat and be lost in the ocean for the rest of my days. I would play the guitar and get a tan and write about the sunsets that I would get to see every evening. mmm yea.
  • You know those shows you watch every week and you think inside, "I like all of these songs playing in the background!" (ok maybe I just notice those things) But who has the job of picking out which songs make it into which episode? I want to be that person. That would let me listen to music all day and decide the cool factor of each song. And then put them into a clip that fits. Not that i particularly want to work for mtv or vh1, but you know. That just seems to be a totally radical job. A soundtrack maker for movies and tv shows.
  • A Dj. Now that's a job I've been told I could do. Beth came up with my dj name, K-snap. I like it, and it gives me some gangster credibility i think. I love music and I love to watch people enjoy and dance and understand music. I want to wear the headphones on one ear and make scratchy sounds and mix lyrics together. Be an artist, ya dig?
  • While on summer project we took a weekend trip to Yosemite National Park and it rocked my freakin world. I can't explain how beautiful and bright everything is there. I could totally be some sort of tour guide, park ranger, toilet cleaner, it just doesnt matter. I could and would live there doing anything anyone asked me to do. Oh boy.
  • Broadway.

Those are just some back-ups. I actually do have to fight through my current job to get some satisfaction out of it. I'm the type of kid that knows what I want and I don't like to settle for things that make me clearly unhappy. So I'm having some troubles. And as fun and inviting as these career choices sound, I'm getting my second education to hopefully someday get the priviledge of doing what i really love and to ya know, get paid. I look forward to it.

2 comments:

Grace said...

So, if the whole owning the Carolina Panthers thing doesn't pan out for you, here's a great alternative--I will write a TV show and you can pick the songs. It'll be like Grey's Anatomy except without dead boyfriends and stuff running around and we'll agree on which characters are attractive (if we have any say in that whatsoever). Deal?

Katie said...

That is a truly splendid idea. Since you would be the writer you would clearly be in charge of the attractiveness of each character, which would be great. Then I can plug in songs during crucial moments that tear your insides out like snow patrol and death cab. Deal.