h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(What it comes down to, I think, is that I have so much potential and mobility right now, that I want to maintain the momentum as long as possible....)

... I'm re-thinking what paths I want to carve out of this life... I've been reading "Delaying the Real World" (my awesome long time friend and confidante, Julie, sent me a link that related to this book... THANK YOU, LOVE!!!!)...

And... thinking again how much I love the thought of non-profit work.

It's what I wanted to do after I "got" my BA last May...

I know I'd be great at the poetry professor position OR in non-profit. I'm lucky in that I get to experience both without great commitment. There is the potential for greatness and creativity in both. I'll have to sift through my goals and values...

I have been perpetually blinking at non-profits, thinking, "I want to help with that..." for years now. I know that as a prof I'd be doing the same: ::blink, blink...::: "Now when can I cram that into my schedule!??"

So perhaps that is my calling in life (second only to writing)...

I admire both professors and non-profit workers.... I want to do what they do...

I am excited about both, and must educate myself further. What matters most is that I don't stop being a productive, publishing poet and that I am happy with my work, my life.

Anyway... sending this your way with hopes for your good health and safety... and hopes that maybe you could give me some input... even just an opinion.

Maybe I'll start my own bloody non-profit... for poetry professors.

It'd be great, wouldn't it!??

I think that I'd regret just one thing about being a prof: that I wouldn't be ALWAYS reaching out to the community/world/universe.... It would be rewarding, but I'm currently thinking that non-profit would be moreso.

And if I HAVE to instruct, I can do that for non-profits... all the bloody time.

Yeah... it'll be different. The quality could be ANYTHING.

(and it can be just that at higher education institutions, too).

Today is the job fair for Antarctica. I am tweaking/detailing my resume (ok, it's my basic resume, unlike the one I used for bartending, or the one I have for writing!!!), which was "finished" about a year ago....

"Interests: Serving others; creativity and education; fiction, non-fiction, writing, editing, reading; spirituality, tarot, mythology, talk radio, news, Internet communications, nutrition, music, history, travel."

(How telling is THAT!??)

Dragonfly, being a teacher is very demanding on your time. I know some teachers; the drain on their energy and health is substantial.

When I did practice teaching in college,even though I was only teaching for half a day each day, I was exhuasted by afternoon.

I suppose you get used to it, but remember that your energy levels don't increase as you get older.

Nonprofits are highly variable. You could find yourself in a wonderful workplace, or a horrible one, or something in between. Choose carefully, grasshopper.

::nods:; Thank you...

... it seems as if there are a few more limits to my life should I be a professor... than if I were in non-profit...

I will be a wise grasshopper...

There's no immediate, time-sensitive decision to be made.

Aren't I bloody fortunate in that!??

... I'm also lucky that I COULD permit myself to give the highly variable non-profits trial runs, you know!?? Better, I think, to find out that you don't like something after giving it a good go, and being, oh, 30 (five years older) when you enter grad school to be a prof, if that's what you decide to do, rather than commit to the prof career and never know about the other opportunities...

Travel, help others, and write.











That's what I am going to do, keep doing, and do with this life.

I expected that.

awwww...you are wonderfull being Dragonfly...

make you can become first female pope! or US president.

if get to be president please interfine with sesame street in the US, because they "done a Charles Darwin" on the cookie monster. cookie monster will not only eat cookies, but also eat vegetables and fruit. soon it will be rabbit monster. there is good reason to make him eat vegetables and fruit. it is show US kids is cool to eat your vegetables and fruit.

"doing a Charles Darwin" is still stange for country where evolution is not part the education?

sorry Dragonfly you are thread I post this in I must be more worried that I thought, then again my country has only blue big bird Pino.

Hahaha... no worries, pheloxi!!! All your thoughts are very welcome 'round "my" threads.

Thanks for the complement, but I'm not Catholic, so I can't be the Pope and... really... I don't want any sort of "guru" or "saintly" status. I just want to give and get and live like that.

Herrmm... could be a song in that last sentence....

... I wanted to be the first female President, because my birthday is the same as George Washington's....

That's interesting about the Cookie Monster. Me LOVE Cookie Monster!!! I made some organic cookies with lemon rinds for school last year... I bet he'd like those. And so would the people in charge of Sesame Street.

Cookie Monster having a diet of just cookies doesn't really bother me... but... the fact that there are COFFEE MACHINE toys (!!!!!!?!?).... ATM MACHINE toys !!!!!!!!!???) and shopping cart toys... that worries me...

by the time there would be female pope
...may if there were not enough male catholics to choose from, but seeing images of his funeral and about 3 million people attending that will not happen soon....

as for president your country could use poet president...

oh! George Washington is the lucky guy

Herrrmmm... Maya Angelou for President!!! She's been terribly politically active...

And I get to see her on the 28th!!! WOOOOHOOO!!!!



Life is good.

Got some promising feedback at the Antarctica Job Fair yesterday. Should get calls in three weeks.

Maya Angelou is intresting person. she sounds so wise too.

I get chills if you say Antarctica (Job Fair)

.... YAY!!!!

Antarctica!!!

I love Angelou's poetry... I have some of it on tape... due back at the library on Monday, though...

Yes.

I won't post any links, then...

your is my sunshine I need

Dragonfly, I have noticed that children *love* little child-sized shopping carts. Why would it worry you that these things are available for them? They're children, and they want to copy the adults that they love and admire.

Same for coffee machine toys and ATM toys. I think it's adorable. Put a little love in your heart.

Ok ok ok ok.

It just scares me that kids think an ATM machine is a toy. It's not.

Debt stinks.

And coffee addictions are one way of getting into debt...










WHhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeee ha.

glad you are in good mood!

.... I usually am....


























::and now.... I plot....::