I have talked to a few people lately that are thinking of the next step. A lot of people I have conversed with are beginning to think about leaving their bubbles at college and wondering where they will go when May or June rolls around. Thats right ladies and gents, the time has come to remember when your elders were saying, "You just wait until you got to grow up! Go into the 'real world'!". Now I can tell you a hundred reasons why I think that is a bunch of horse apples, but that is not the point of this discussion on the couch.
I was at the pub talking to this older guy about California and how they have dug themselves into the rut that they are in now. We got onto the subject of the United State's economy, jobs and college. He was telling me that when he got out of college, the question everyone was asking themselves was not, "Will I get a job?", it was, "which job offer should I take?". Obviously much different than today. Should some of us forget the job thing and go to graduate school to wait until the economy gets better? How about traveling? Should I just look for a job, any job? Should I move back home for a while, so I don't have to have expenses for a little bit? How the hell am I supposed to pick a direction?
The great thing about the question of the "the next step", is that it can apply to everything and everyone in some way, no matter where you are in life. If your getting married, or already married, what do you do now? I guess live the "American Dream", white picket fence, maybe a few kids, garden, and a golden retriever? Just got fired from your job that you assumed would probably be your career? Did you buy some really good vegetables or fruit, thinking you were going to be healthy again, but you forgot about them and they just went moldy on you? What do you do now? Of course you can look at these questions in the worst possible way, but why not look at your situation as an opportunity in disguise? I have had the worst trouble with these questions. I've gotten down, cursed myself and probably been the most confused in my entire life. I have got to keep remembering that the sky is the limit, like what Lil' Wayne said. Opportunities are everywhere, you just have to remember to look up every once and a while to see them (that is from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I can't take credit for that).
This is the last thing I have to talk about, I promise. Moving to Bend has been a great thing for me. Maybe two hours ago I would not have said that, but after what I have typed, I sincerely believe that. Coming from Eugene, I pictured Bend as being my savior. Man, I was gonna tackle the world! I was set! I'm gonna get all these cool classes and I am going to do really well in them, nothing can stop me! Climbing is two minutes from my house, you can bike everywhere (even on highway 97), the mountain is 25 minutes away, the pub where I work is 2 minutes walking, the school is 11.5 minutes away walking and I got homies that want to come and ride on snow in the winter. That is all cool, but things have changed this winter term. Treading water is the best way to describe this winter term. I want to do a little experiment. I want to try not graduating from college. I want to work and gain as much experience in everything possible. Everything from radio shows to welding to working on an oil rig. I want my resume to be 30 pages long, maybe prove the elders wrong. They always have said, "Nowadays you have to have a college diploma to do anything". I think it can work.
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