I’m watching all my internet friends head off to conferences and talks and conventions and I’m getting all self conscious. Shouldn’t I be packing a bag and heading out too? By their measurement, at this point in my career, I should be jetting off to Las Vegas or Copenhagen and speaking to large crowds about…
Wait. There aren’t any conventions for slovenly, half assed career choices and the desire not to move outside my current comfort zone.
Never mind.
UPDATE: Just as I finished this, news broke of a ghost writer getting fired from his job and extracting revenge in a most appropriate way on Twitter. Here’s the screengrab because it will be taken down:
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Apparently, you’re not even supposed to go to the lectures. You’re supposed to schmooze out in the hallway.
I hate schmoozing.
LOL… I think the same damn thing. I remember when I used to work for a big American conglomerate and I was jetting to the head office, and I was jetting to conferences. Jetting here. Jetting there. I had an Aeroplan. I had an American Airlines friends plan… I flew business class… I was everywhere. Now, I haven’t been to a conference in more than a decade. The farthest I been on a business trip is Whtiby. And, generally speaking, it’s home, office, home..
Part of me remembers that these things always seemed a grand waste of time and money. And, like you, part of feels like I’m missing “something”. I’m just not sure what that “something” is.
THERE ARE *COMPLIMENTARY* SNACKS at these things? Way to make my life more less interesting, more or less!
Wait since when did attending a conference involve learning? I thought it was an excuse to get free tshirts and eat complimentary snacks.
HALLELOO!!
I would if I could afford to live on no income. My biggest thing is that if could survive for 3-4 years with no money or home, it would be feasible…
…part of me was going to wait for J to get a job at a university to do it, but I’m getting all punchy. And my brain needs engaging…I also need to read more books that I wouldn’t normally pick up. I feel slow and stupid…and I’m not. So I’m werkin’ it as best I can.
HALLELOOO!
Oh hell dude. Thanks for the words! Internet hug!
It’s just coincidental that all the social media, emails, instagrams, blog posts etc I’ve read in the last 48 hours is of someone going off and learning something.
Wait… you didnt finish your schoolin’? Missy! March your ass back into that classroom!
If its any consolation, I’m insanely jealous that your current career involves so much creativity and whimsy (for lack of a better term). Although I am baseline satisfied at my job, I do wish I was doing something more fun.
I also wish I had at least finished university at received a degree – I’m actually working on a way to get my current employer to at least foot a portion of the bill for me to complete that degree through correspondence. We’ll see. Also, my partner is a brilliant academic – although I never feel inadequate, I often aspire to be the best me I can. And you inspire me, too…inspire me to get in touch with my creative side more often.
And for the record, traveling for work, unless you’re going to FUN places, isn’t fun. Its annoying and inconvenient.