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Goals
So.....
I've been thinking a lot about my future.
NO, I am not quitting my job. I happen to really enjoy my job, thank you very much!
I've been thinking moreso about one, two, five, ten years down the line. How will my professional (non-profit) goals line up with my literary goals? How will those two things line up with both sets of fraternal goals (APO and APhiA)?
And what will my personal life look like when my professional goals come to pass?
I'm pushing 30 now -- just under three years away. I have definitely made some moves already. Scoring the job that I currently have was exactly what I needed to catapult me from paraprofessional to professional. Now I'm doing things to ensure that the work I am doing now is a solid foundation for the future.
Unfortunately, it's caused my literary work to suffer. Not drastically -- but I am not devoting the time I used to devote toward this work. I do know that eventually it will all balance out.
I have a lot of travel scheduled for 2007. I'm really excited, especially now because since I have a REAL job, I can actually afford to travel independent of book sales. (Well, at least it appears that way.)
Oh yeah...... I bought me a laptop. It arrived yesterday. A Dell. It's kinda hot, but I took for granted the fact that it took YEARS for me to create the ideal desktop computer, lol. Even down to the codecs I downloaded on my desktop so I could listen to certain music and video files.
What else has been going on.... oh yeah, last week was quite hellish emotionally. I had ups and downs like they were going out of style. And just when I got over one thing, something else would happen to make me go under again.
I finally broke out of the funk when I spoke to SMYAL on Saturday....it was for the BUILD program for young men of color. HOT. I have a lot of new respect for SMYAL now that i know the work they're doing for gay and bi boys of color. God bless em.
I gave each of the participants a copy of LAZARUS in hopes that it would inspire them in some way. I totally had my first Oprah moment and loved it!!!!
(Not counting the time I gave away toothpaste to first graders and they all screamed like the won the lottery.)
Posted by Rashid on August 22, 2006 9:07 PM