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What do you want to be now?
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My interests have come full circle as well. First, I wanted to be a writer. Then as a teenager I wanted to be a painter. Now, at 28, I’m a writer. Maybe someone should go around to all the elementary schools and tell kids that whatever it is they want to do right then is what they should pursue, so as not to waste 15 or more years like the rest of us.
I think that’s really good advice. I can offer a few more pieces:
- It helps if the thing that you really love to do can realistically earn you enough money to live on, because then you can do it for a significant proportion of your life (enough to get really good)instead of trying to fit it around a job.
- In terms of avoiding getting really bored, it helps if your interest is in something which lends itself well to infinite variation and experimentation.
I feel pretty lucky, because I make computer games for a living which is what I’d be doing (and what I do) in my spare time anyway. It’s hard to get bored making small games that you can do by yourself, because there are always so many ideas to try out - what’s harder is figuring out how best to be spending your time.
I had to fit writing around jobs for years. If I’d lived by your first rule of thumb, Ricky, I’d have never taken the plunge. I say, go for whatever it is you’ve always wanted to do.
Oh I absolutely agree - if you have a real calling to do something, then yeah, you should do whatever you can to follow it.
However, I don’t believe that everyone *does* have a dream to do just one specific thing. I’d guess that most people are more fluid in their interests, and will often adapt over time from being just interested in doing something to really loving it - probably because that makes it easier to do.
Up to a certain age, there were a number of different directions I could have gone in - and it’s just happened to work out well for me. Perhaps if I’d gone in a different direction, I’d be posting a comment justifying that instead - it’s impossible to say.
So my points above weren’t really rules - I was simply observing that, all things being equal, it helps if you can fulfill your dreams in a job which pays you to do so.
this post just reminds me of my failures
YAY!
Local Girl, I think you’re brilliant and your blog is very funny. You are one talented lady. I think you should try and get excerts of your blog published in a Local Girl Annual like the Girls annual, except your would be bits from the previous year. Why don’t you try David Frickling at Randon House. He likes comics. I hope I get a free signed copy if the idea works!
whoops sorry I meant the Giles annual!!
Was wondering that too - note it now seems to have been erased from history…LG, are you trying a spot of Russian style revisionism on us?
But…what?
Oh, and I seem to be at about the same stage as you in terms of interests/career etc.
So your words of wisdom really hit home - maybe I should print that page out so it can remind me not to get *too* stressed!
“Maybe someone should go around to all the elementary schools and tell kids that whatever it is they want to do right then is what they should pursue, so as not to waste 15 or more years like the rest of us”- Crap should I have become a bus driver??
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