Long awaited post
Well this isnt the post that some are looking for sorry, it is still in the works, but I promise that it I will get a post up for Penguicon and one up for this last weekend too ;-).
However I had a conversation to day that made me think in a lot of different ways and directions. I talked to somebody at the gym (for those that dont know FitnessUSA is a gender segregate gym so that unfortunately puts flirting out of the picture at least for this person anyway) about collage and life dreams and career aspirations. I realized in talking to him that he not only had no chance of achieving his dream but was oblivious to it. He want to be a video game programmer a very competitive very elite-est sort of job. No big deal this is fine with me but when you have no clue about what I'm talking about when I mention C++ and very little clue when I mention Java this tells me that you have more than a little ground to make up.
This brings me to the point of how do you tell somebody they need to be realistic in their goals. I would have a hard time telling a friend that let alone a stranger. At one time I had some pretty outlandish goals for my life since then I have found and lost them time and time again. I just know that being a scientist and a project of “Manhattan Project” type and proportions is a little unreasonable. Now I shall go to bed way to late contemplating what I am going to do with my life and what I am doing now relative to it and how I can get the line between them shorter.
It looks that since my connection to the internet is down tonight I will be posting this latter. :-(
However I had a conversation to day that made me think in a lot of different ways and directions. I talked to somebody at the gym (for those that dont know FitnessUSA is a gender segregate gym so that unfortunately puts flirting out of the picture at least for this person anyway) about collage and life dreams and career aspirations. I realized in talking to him that he not only had no chance of achieving his dream but was oblivious to it. He want to be a video game programmer a very competitive very elite-est sort of job. No big deal this is fine with me but when you have no clue about what I'm talking about when I mention C++ and very little clue when I mention Java this tells me that you have more than a little ground to make up.
This brings me to the point of how do you tell somebody they need to be realistic in their goals. I would have a hard time telling a friend that let alone a stranger. At one time I had some pretty outlandish goals for my life since then I have found and lost them time and time again. I just know that being a scientist and a project of “Manhattan Project” type and proportions is a little unreasonable. Now I shall go to bed way to late contemplating what I am going to do with my life and what I am doing now relative to it and how I can get the line between them shorter.
It looks that since my connection to the internet is down tonight I will be posting this latter. :-(