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crazyheart

crazyheart

Rest In Peace: tomorrow,tomorrow
If you knew then what you know now

what would you do with your educational choices?

I know people have gone through life regretting that they didn't

go to University, Technical School, Theological Colleges,

own a restaurant or a theatre, or work for airlines.

We don't talk to students in Grade 9,10,11,12 about many of these choices.

What did you wish you had chosen?
 
I'd have finished a 4th year of my Political Science. And I would have visited the Careers office, rather than pretending that I didn't have any idea about what to do, or why I was interested in the things I was interested in.

There is a good movie Lions for Lambs where Prof. Robert Redford is talking to a cocky, bored, frustrated college guy about why he should excel.... worth a watch. Makes me wish I could communicate that to my own kids.
 
I don't know. I had considered med school, but didn't want a really stressful job or having to do something like surgery with a migraine. I've come up with the 'right' specialty - an allergist, not an immunologist working in a hospital though. I don't know if I could have gotten through med school ok though, just being around contagious people.

Would I have done grad school knowing I would have had these health issues? No.

I'm still figuring out what I'm going to do, and sorting out how much my body will allow me to do.

An ideal job would be something where I could easily increase/decrease hours depending on how I'm doing. Not too many jobs allow you to just decrease hours down to how little is reasonable for me at times.
 
I would not listen to my parents' practicalities and I would go into the arts. Because I'd be a starving artist for awhile but I ain't much better off anyway as it turns out - maybe by now something would've come of it. And I'd meet so many interesting people.
 
I went into the humanities (Classics) but then took library science so I could actually get a job.:cool:

If I could do it all again? Might choose grad school instead of library school though after being around academics for 20+ years (due to Mrs. M being one) I can see that it isn't really as pleasant an option as I might have thought at one time.

Whenever I think about "would I change it if I could" about my education, the one thing that kind of derails that train of thought is that if I hadn't gone to library school, I wouldn't be with Mrs. M so it would change literally EVERYTHING about my life, not just my career options. Who I dated, who I married, my kids, etc.
 
I'D 've learned more earlier ... contrary to what I was told as a kid. What was I told? That I was stupid and couldn't learn anything.

I hope this doesn't upset revjohn too much as he never heard such things from where he come from ... but then he never experienced where I was at ... albeit I have changed as my position appears to have evolved. But I am not to refer to this as learning as the bible denies learning as it is too close to knowledge and thus evil to the passions (or gods)!

Why kids arrive screaming ...? And with hope they learn ... but never arrive at perfect knowledge for they have that hump of passion to get over, and slowly we learn about humping great masses into becoming instead of just sitting there like a bump in a log, or other type of journal that can plant some strange experiences in your dark spot ... that between yerears. or hung up between two ends? How eghos get enslaved in loupes of minds as snares ... once referred to as Nooses of the psyche variety ...

One should be still like god ... an inner point that is thus interminably small, unseen?

One should gather sum ... integrate? Brutes prefer antisocial behaviour ... perhaps identifying the idealism that leads us to no ends ... as holes?

Do holes as space go on and on? Consider the extent of mind over matter in the quota of "I" as intended? Does it take a jinni to write a book about nothing and everything as rejected by Romans and Judi'ans? Thus the X-Q-ues we get for not knowing where we're at because we don't know our origins ... as love is denied by the Roman perspective on Mars ... Venus being acrid and cloudy ... but a very clean hard place after the acid wash ...

What opposes Jinnis? That be Golem ... the muttering of the earth ...
 
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crazyheart said:
@Waterfall, it isn;t too late, is it?
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Unfortunately yes, age does terrible things to vocal chords.....besides it was just a dream and the confidence and encouragement wasn't there...others within the family tree did go on to have major careers in the industry though. We do seem to have a musical vein that has shown up sporadically.
 
Waterfall said:
Unfortunately yes, age does terrible things to vocal chords.....besides it was just a dream and the confidence and encouragement wasn't there...others within the family tree did go on to have major careers in the industry though. We do seem to have a musical vein that has shown up sporadically.
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The late Sir Christopher Lee became a heavy metal star in his late eighties (he died at 93) so there's always hope. Of course, you don't exactly need a great set of pipes for that kind of music (he did have some previous musical experience in theatre, I believe).
 
Mendalla said:
The late Sir Christopher Lee became a heavy metal star in his late eighties (he died at 93) so there's always hope. Of course, you don't exactly need a great set of pipes for that kind of music (he did have some previous musical experience in theatre, I believe).
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My cousin is a major force in the music industry in California, ( he co wrote By the Grace of God with Katy Perry and produced other major singers albums), another cousin always had a dream too of making a record. My brother contacted the producer cousin and all three of them made his dream come true...not for commercial success but for his dream to be fulfilled. I thought that was amazing.
 
Waterfall said:
My cousin is a major force in the music industry in California, ( he co wrote By the Grace of God with Katy Perry and produced other major singers albums), another cousin always had a dream too of making a record. My brother contacted the producer cousin and all three of them made his dream come true...not for commercial success but for his dream to be fulfilled. I thought that was amazing.
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Holy crap, I think I know who you're talking about. Quite a relation to have if you like music, @Waterfall . Maybe you should leverage that channel, too. It might just be a vanity project that only you and your family ever hear but it could be fun.
 
Mendalla said:
Holy crap, I think I know who you're talking about. Quite a relation to have if you like music, @Waterfall . Maybe you should leverage that channel, too. It might just be a vanity project that only you and your family ever hear but it could be fun.
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His brother is quite successful too, sons of a UCC minister, my Dads bro.
 
A lot of the time I regret doing it at all. I loved university and all of the people I met and everything I did but the amount of debt I am in now and the things I cannot do becuase of said debt is staring to pile up and is effecting my life more than I had ever thought. If I did still want to do it, I'd take a three year pass program and then college and have two years less of debt.
 
I don't know how I would have managed it - what with my poor health, two young children, and poverty - but I would have continued to write. I wrote in elementary school, high school, and during what university I was able to get; but then I took a long hiatas when putting food on the table and raising my children seemed more important. I only got back to writing as a senior. I should have found a way to continue all along.
 
Journaling is a gutte way of venting frustrations ... route of Freudian slippage and some creeping buildup ... conspiracy as contemplated by emotional bus tout?

Some hint of this literary device is found in the Song of Songs about a slap to the head by the grandmother of cloes ... that's time for everything ... be patient ...
 
Seeler said:
I don't know how I would have managed it - what with my poor health, two young children, and poverty - but I would have continued to write. I wrote in elementary school, high school, and during what university I was able to get; but then I took a long hiatas when putting food on the table and raising my children seemed more important. I only got back to writing as a senior. I should have found a way to continue all along.
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Based on your novel, I'll second this. I'm trying to get more into my writing in hopes that it can become one of my retirement hobbies/projects.
 
As you get older you can draw the line or string out towards the end of the cave we're in ... good for retrieval!

That next life thing ...
 
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