Question Meme

[teaberryblue]

furiosity asked me this question a while ago and I keep flaking on answering it.

Are you in your current career for good or is it a stepping stone to something else for you?

It was funny, because I think in some ways this question highlights the difference in the way F and I approach life, and kind of in a Slytherin/Gryffindor dynamic. Sorry, non-Harry-Potter-nerds on my list. Just trust that it makes sense.

Because it wouldn't even occur to me to think about that!

I haven't read or seen Yes Man, but the way I approach life is very similar to that premise. I generally do whatever seems like the most exciting and fulfulling thing to do right now is.

Right now, I love comics and I love being around them all day. I enjoy my job, my coworkers, and what I do. Will I do it forever? Probably not, but only because I might find something else I love more! Or life might take me somewhere else.

I don't believe in fate or destiny and I do believe in human agency. So life taking me somewhere else isn't one of those "well, I'm meant to do THIS now!" But I do believe that there are always a million options open to people to do all kinds of things. So I will do this until either I get bored, I find something else I like better, this naturally morphs into something else, or there is no longer a need for me here. I don't do five-year plans, unless you're talking about places I want to visit and liquors I want to taste.

The benefits of this job (and every job I have ever had) are that I get to immerse myself in a subject that I want to learn more about all day long.

This is not to say that I don't have any ambitions. It's just that my ambitions are not structured in grand overarching plans. They are more project-oriented-- one of them will be completed in a couple weeks, another one is being completed as we speak. I work a lot better as a piecemeal kind of person and I don't have the patience for long plans. I think the old AA One-Day-At-A-Time way of looking at life is something I subscribe to everything I do. Today, I will draw a comic. Today, I will mix a new cocktail. Today, I will write a page of a novel. And I end up finishing things because all those little todays build up into years, but I don't often look down the road much more than a month or two.

I hope that answers your question! Would anyone like a question? Please comment here!

Comments

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

I would like a question please!

[gabbygrl.livejournal.com]

Can I have one?

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Oh sure! I'll take a question.

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Thank you for answering! :D

[cetacea.livejournal.com]

I feel like that's a really spectacular way of looking at life. Sometimes (okay, often) I get super-overwhelmed by my 5-10-life year plans for life, so I've been trying to take a more one-day-at-a-time approach to things. It's a mindset that is difficult for me to swallow, but I really feel like thinking that way would improve a lot of my anxieties about life-things. Also, there are so many things I want to do (in terms of careers/jobs) that it seems silly to me to have a grand plan to do just one of them.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

I am happy to hear that this is how you think about things, because I have never had a long-term plan ever. Didn't know what I was majoring in when I got to college, had no clue what I was doing after.

Mostly I think this is because there's never been anything that I loved doing that I was also interested/able to make a career out of. . . People always are saying stuff like "Set your sights on your dream and work towards it, and you can achieve it!" but I've. . . never had a dream. XD

That sounds a bit tragic, but I'm also quite happy where I am now and plan to stay here while it's enjoyable and then see if I need to move on later. But it's tough when my friends are like "OK, I'm going to work here for a few years and then they'll pay for me to go to grad school to study this" and so on and so on.

[purplehaze9.livejournal.com]

question plz

[cheshire23.livejournal.com]

I would like a question!

[dragonmagelet.livejournal.com]

Since apparently I am still getting kicked in the ass by this virus, knock me out with a QUESTION!

[henpecked.livejournal.com]

I think your answer totally lines up with what I know about you and have inferred from our conversations! I really admire this quality about you, incidentally. I feel like I spend so much time making plans to do stuff that I never actually have any time or spend any real time enjoying my "NOW." I think I'm getting better at it, though!

I would like a question!

[liret.livejournal.com]

I would like a question!

Also, I am curious as to which goal will be completed in a couple weeks.

[thaliontholwen.livejournal.com]

I want a question! I like questions!

(That may be slightly more enthusiastic than needed; I'm more than a little crazy today.)

[oxymoronassoc.livejournal.com]

Ooh this is a really interesting view point to read. I am curious: when you do work on projects and such, are you more detail orientated or big picture? I am guessing the former. I really enjoyed reading this because it is so the opposite of how I am.

Also, if you don't mind, I'd love a question. :)

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

I like your response. I think that's a great way to live and has a greater chance of garnering joy than the idea that what's here today is a stepping stone to a better happier tomorrow. Happiness exists today. It's a good thing to remember. :)

[gildedage.livejournal.com]

QUESTION ME UP LADY

[elikrei.livejournal.com]

Can I have a question? I read all of your stuff and look forward to it, but have been writing not at all myself....

[astraevirgo.livejournal.com]

I'd like a question. :D

[novangla.livejournal.com]

Very illuminating-- I'm glad you wrote up that answer. It's good to have different examples of career-mindsets around.

You make tough questions! But I am up for a challenge. :| :D

[spiralstairs.livejournal.com]

I'll have a question, please! :) (Btw, awesome answer.)

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I would like a question please

[mel06.livejournal.com]

Pick meeeeee!


And really, I can't imagine you doing almost anything else as a career.