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Help me embrace all the Shoulds

amy s Avataramy s
October 20, 2006


Most people I talk to in my position (read: clueless/unsure/depressed/confused) are keeping busy with jobs at local delis or chain stores. I know I really need to get some money coming in but I just can’t bring myself to work at a bookstore or food place- I mean I went to college. I got a very expensive degree. Shouldn’t I be doing something more? I might be just feeling a bit stuck up but I feel like my job searching should be focused on a job that pays you for a year and where you have to be more responsible and grown-up. I keep making excuses to not buckle down and actually apply places and then the days slip away and it is suddenly the latter half of October and I have nothing to show for that expensive degree.


My last entry spoke about dreams because dreams have been on my mind a lot recently. I have a confession: I have been totally lazy about looking for a job. Yes I am looking. My resume is on a bunch of sites, I constantly do job searches, I keep my ears open for openings, etc. But beyond those basics I have not really done much. I applied to one recruiter site that could not use my services and I applied to one job that had already been filled.
My head is filled with ideas. Perhaps I will open an ice cream business- a dream that lasted about a month until I got bored and gave up. Perhaps I should use this time off to paint a mural on my walls- but after one sad tree in the corner I have moved on. Perhaps I will train to become a self-taught chef from all the cooking I have been doing at home- ah but I am too picky an eater to have an interest in that. I have all these ideas in my head, none of them relevant to my life dream, and nothing that I can seem to stay with. Maybe I should just get a retail job while I wait for more focus. But how does a procrastinator go about focusing on a career? Maybe I am too lazy to do anything but dream.

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