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Intros – Part 7 of 7: A Moment of Muddy Clarity

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January 28, 2006


My senior year was my fifth year in college. I had just found out what major would help slip out with a degree in hand. And I started to take every course I could to graduate on time. I had already been delayed too many times by changes. In the meantime, linguistics came pretty easy to me.
My business job had ended after three months; the funds ran out. But my sociology job was kind enough to allow me to work with them and get paid and stay as a team. I will always be grateful to them.
In the meantime, I was enjoying taking the acting 101 class during autumn quarter of my senior year and had fun going to plays and the class participation. I had taken theater 101 as a freshman, but didn’t think too much of it. When it was time to schedule for Winter courses I started to take a Movement class dealing with Laban notation. It was so fun and inspired more confidence that in the spring time I took a directing class and script analysis class.
Somewhere in the middle of my directing class, I was doing a ballet piece with human montage stills and splicing audio files late into the night and thought, “Hey! I could do this for a living, it involves computers, and this is fun!”
I graduated a few weeks later with A’s in all my final courses, received a diploma and was having a blast staying up there earning cash as a university webmaster. But, my summer was coming to an end. My job was going to be over. I had to go back to my parents home and my father and mother called every weekend reminding of Damocle’s sword hanging over me of my return to dependence on them if I couldn’t find a job. Again for the second time my Dad offered to give help me make a career move, this time teaching.
It was a warm summer’s day as I was walking to my sociology job for my last three weeks on the job. Halfway there, it all became clear. I resolved to go back to graduate school to study film and video editing. But then it became muddy again. How to get there and what to do with it…?
*** Dear readers, I hope you’ve enjoyed my exciting seven part Pre-Candidate Intro series. Stay tuned for Job Hunting – a new series where I chronicle my next past and present job hunting adventures beginning in February.

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