Changing direction, or not

March 13th, 2007 - 22:52 | 4 comments

In the past few days I’ve felt like ditching my current computer-fixing lifestyle multiple times:

After seeing many pictures like this:

I realised I definitely want to get a qualification in librarianship, then later run a small bookshop.
This morning I was in the offices of a web-design company as a volunteer for their eye-tracking research. The atmosphere was relaxed and friendly, and I decided it could be a very pleasant existence and wouldn’t take too much work on my part to achieve.
I came home and saw Photojojo’s link to George Lange’s flipbook. After watching it twice I immediately wanted to find a local portrait photographer who would take me on as an apprentice.

I’ll be 24 in a couple of months. I was hoping to have all this stuff figured out by now.

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4 Responses to “Changing direction, or not”

1 Mum Mar 13th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Perhaps if you visited us you might want to become an accountant??
2 Andrew Mar 13th, 2007 at 11:33 pm

I think this unlikely
3 Nod Mar 14th, 2007 at 1:54 pm

hehe =) I used to see finding direction as seeing the paths, but came to realise that its about choosing one and heading off and experiencing that for a while You’ve done that with writing, but you’re feeling the pain of having to do something that you don’t enjoy, to support something which you do enjoy. Fixing pc’s is better than a lot of part time jobs. I thought you were intent on supporting your writing with something slightly closer to writing rather moving off in new directions, however if you wanted support in changing to a specific direction then you have mine wherever I am of use
4 Lil Mar 14th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

That would actually be surprisingly early to figure it all out My dad was a lecturer for several 30-40 year olds who still hadn’t decided on their careers!
I still have the feeling my true calling was to be shut away in a quiet lab/old-fashioned museum writing journal articles about obscure species of small furry things =P But sadly I’m not good enough at statistics to do a PhD =P

If you want to go in the books direction, my parents have both spent their lives in that area (as you know), and would be happy to offer advice =)

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