" What do you do with a B.A. in English,
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet,
'Cause I have no skills yet,
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake,
The feeling I might make,
A difference,
To the human race."
- "What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?" Avenue Q
How often lately have I felt this sentiment. This opening song from the musical Avenue Q is so fitting to my life right now. Here I am with a degree, finally, and not sure what I want to do with it.
How is it that some people fall into these perfect and exciting jobs? Some people just are in the right place at the right time. Some just trip over it. Some even find the job, don't want to take it and later accept it only to find out it was a dream job! WHY CAN THIS NOT HAPPEN TO ME??
While doing job searches on the internet, there is nothing but crap out there! There are jobs that sound like fun and that would be interesting, but they are all requiring 5+ years of experience or some requirement that I have never heard of. Where are the interesting jobs that pay well and people love? Am I just looking in the wrong places? Have I just been mistaken and there really is no job like that out there? Or am I just destined to be in a boring office job doing paperwork for the rest of my life? Is there really more to life after a college degree than I was thinking? or am I just going to have to really take a 50% pay cut to enter into the post college workplace? Could it be I went to the wrong University? or decided to major in the wrong area?
Speaking of the wrong University, I recently (and embarrassingly am admitting it now) went to go see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 . It was here that I realized how people in movies always go to some fancy college or university. No one in the movies go to UNLV, University of Michigan, or God forbid, Community College. They all go to Brown, Yale, Harvard. Why? Are these places so unattainable, like the experiences in movies, that we have to dream of them as well? and are they that much better? Obviously the jobs you will get just by attending one of these places will be far better than the average person. And those of us who attended an average University will have to work a lot harder to make the incomes those elite students will be making, but why rub it in our faces when we should just be being entertained? Sorry, just a side rant!
But really. What do you do after college especially when you are not sure what you want to do? If anyone really knows, let me know!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Lessons from Cooking Chili
Who knew cooking could teach you so many things. Here are the things I learned while cooking my chili today:
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice and then your balls.
#2. V8 relieves the burn from jalapeños on skin, so does lemon and a mixture of water and baking soda.
#3. Chili does not have to be hot; it is ok to not put the jalapeños in, especially after my experience.
#4. Soaking beans takes time...a lot of time. Never rush things that are meant to take time.
#5. A nice mixture of beans makes the chili more interesting and tastier. This one I used 3 kinds: kidney, pinto, and black.
#6. Seasoning is the spice of life, but too much spice can make your chili undesirable and no one will want to eat it.
How these relate to us in life?
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice then your balls. It's a lesson in and of itself!
#2. Some of the most unorthodox things can be soothing. Open up and let yourself be relieved by something you're not used to.
#3. Life can be nice without the heat. No matter what you do, switch it up and break conceived rules. Go unconventional!
#4. We are in too much of a rush in life. Take your time. When you do, things really do turn out better.
#5. Having a nice mix of friends makes life better. Why have people around you who are all the same. The more diverse friends we have, the more we can learn.
#6. It's good to be yourself. It's funny to be crazy. But sometimes, too much is really too much! There is a time and a place. Learn how to figure out when and where.
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice and then your balls.
#2. V8 relieves the burn from jalapeños on skin, so does lemon and a mixture of water and baking soda.
#3. Chili does not have to be hot; it is ok to not put the jalapeños in, especially after my experience.
#4. Soaking beans takes time...a lot of time. Never rush things that are meant to take time.
#5. A nice mixture of beans makes the chili more interesting and tastier. This one I used 3 kinds: kidney, pinto, and black.
#6. Seasoning is the spice of life, but too much spice can make your chili undesirable and no one will want to eat it.
How these relate to us in life?
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice then your balls. It's a lesson in and of itself!
#2. Some of the most unorthodox things can be soothing. Open up and let yourself be relieved by something you're not used to.
#3. Life can be nice without the heat. No matter what you do, switch it up and break conceived rules. Go unconventional!
#4. We are in too much of a rush in life. Take your time. When you do, things really do turn out better.
#5. Having a nice mix of friends makes life better. Why have people around you who are all the same. The more diverse friends we have, the more we can learn.
#6. It's good to be yourself. It's funny to be crazy. But sometimes, too much is really too much! There is a time and a place. Learn how to figure out when and where.
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