Monday, February 25, 2008
Comment on the Post "Hard Time"
I commented on Max's post Hard Times about his grandfather because I really felt that I could relate to his story.
My Comment on CHanging the Drinking Age
I commented on Powerade's Post, "What The Drinking Age Should Be". To view his Blog Please click HERE
The Search for my Passion
Do you remember being a little kid and thinking about what you wanted to be when you grew up? Most kids want to be doctors, or firefighters, or the President of the United States. It seems like just yesterday my parents were telling me that I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up if I worked hard in school. I remember as a five year old little girl my mom told me that when I grow up I should have a job that I love and it does not matter how much money I make. At that time in my life I wanted to be a truck driver, but my decision has changed over the years.
While reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Finding Flow, the story about Joe really made me think. Joe was a sixty year old man who worked in a factory. Almost everyone who worked in this factory hated their job and spent the day counting down the hours until they were off work. However, Joe loved his job. He had devoted his life to this job and learned how everything in the factory worked and how to fix what was broken. “Many claimed that without Joe the factory might as well close.”
The reason I love this story so much is because I believe it goes along with one of my very favorite quotes by Confucius, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” I found this quote in a book right before I came to college. I believe the timing was perfect because college is all about discovering what it is in life that one truly loves. When graduating from High School everyone is dying to give you that “life changing” piece of advice before you head out into the world. I cannot even count on my two hand how many people told me to try everything in college because it is really the only time you will be able to experience such a variety of areas. I have been taking all sorts of different classes trying to figure out what my passion in life is. I thought I had always wanted to be a doctor, but after taking chemistry first semester I realized that I do not LOVE science like I had thought. I am still on the search for finding what I love because when I get out of college and enter the working world I really want a job that I love walking up and going to everyday, because I do not want to waste my life working a job I hate. My father is a layer and he hates what he does. He spends days at a time in the office trying to get all his work done, and that is all it is to him; WORK. He is a key example of someone who works to live, not someone who lives to work. And that is exactly what I don’t want to be. He constantly tells me to do what I want to do, no matter how hard it is to achieve because that will make me the happiest. So right now I am on the search for my passion. I just hope it will hurry up and reveal itself to me
While reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Finding Flow, the story about Joe really made me think. Joe was a sixty year old man who worked in a factory. Almost everyone who worked in this factory hated their job and spent the day counting down the hours until they were off work. However, Joe loved his job. He had devoted his life to this job and learned how everything in the factory worked and how to fix what was broken. “Many claimed that without Joe the factory might as well close.”
The reason I love this story so much is because I believe it goes along with one of my very favorite quotes by Confucius, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” I found this quote in a book right before I came to college. I believe the timing was perfect because college is all about discovering what it is in life that one truly loves. When graduating from High School everyone is dying to give you that “life changing” piece of advice before you head out into the world. I cannot even count on my two hand how many people told me to try everything in college because it is really the only time you will be able to experience such a variety of areas. I have been taking all sorts of different classes trying to figure out what my passion in life is. I thought I had always wanted to be a doctor, but after taking chemistry first semester I realized that I do not LOVE science like I had thought. I am still on the search for finding what I love because when I get out of college and enter the working world I really want a job that I love walking up and going to everyday, because I do not want to waste my life working a job I hate. My father is a layer and he hates what he does. He spends days at a time in the office trying to get all his work done, and that is all it is to him; WORK. He is a key example of someone who works to live, not someone who lives to work. And that is exactly what I don’t want to be. He constantly tells me to do what I want to do, no matter how hard it is to achieve because that will make me the happiest. So right now I am on the search for my passion. I just hope it will hurry up and reveal itself to me
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