All partied out?

[chaotic_nipple]

Man, I'm turning into a real lightweight in my old age. Still, I think I've killed sufficient brain cells (and made Jesus cry enough) for one debauch. Tomorrow, I guess I'd better get around to cleaning and re-inhabiting my apartment. I wonder how much I should bother with the unpacking, since I'm just going to be moving again in a few months. Still, I guess I should go through my stuff and figure out what I really need/want, and what I can just give away. Or possibly sell on Ebay.

Speaking of moving, I still have no real idea what I want to do when I grow up. Or rather, I have several hundred ideas, but none of them have enough going for them to assert primacy in my brainpan and compel me to go about pursuing them. I hereby solicit suggestions. Anyone? Bueller?

Comments

You could become a Republican shill, if you kill more brain cells...

[bobmage.livejournal.com]

...particularly the ones that hold your generosity, honesty, moral compass, and overall humanity.

So don't do that.

Go to school. Study science, so _I_ can ask _you_ obscure questions.
Or engineering, so you can help me build my robot hordes.
Or writing, so you can be a babe magnet at cons.

That's my 8 am on a Sunday morning answer.

[kakiphony.livejournal.com]

This just came to me: Instead of traditional library science degrees, a lot of schools are now combing library science with a tech degree. Our law school had lots of techie librarians. Maybe you should get a master's in information services/library science and be the cool techie librarian. (or, maybe I'm projecting and just suggesting to you what I'd do if I could afford another 2-3 years of school...)

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Hmm... A Librarian, you say? This has potential. Feel free to throw out more suggestions, though, you never know when one will strike like the proverbial thunderbolt.

[dracphelan.livejournal.com]

Man-whore! You could be Mike Crichton, gigolo.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Nah, too much like being a politician.

[dracphelan.livejournal.com]

Dang that rules out Governor of Minnesota and lawyer. How about sex ed teacher at an all girls school?

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Hmm...

[mommeeof8.livejournal.com]

A nanny for your favorite nieces and nephews?

[(Anonymous)]

Same advice I gave last time. Cephalopod behavioral geneticist. A wide open field!

http://www.utmb.edu/nrcc/AlliedResPrgs2.htm

http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/jcdl/2003/1939/00/19390401.pdf

http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/ionmain/htdocs/faculty/tublitz.html

[inhuman14.livejournal.com]

I agree with Bob.

[blue-chicory.livejournal.com]

How 'bout you be an evil slumlord sapping the last pennies from students/low-income people/working single parents...would give you many opportunities to practice the diabolical laugh.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm forty three. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up either.

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.

Diane S.

http://anunfounddoor.blogspot.com

You're good with kids

[bobmage.livejournal.com]

You could be a teacher, if you wore a long-sleeved shirt to the job interview.

braincells

[susiespf.livejournal.com]

my boy, nate who has been doing his share of brain-cell damage, has a very hopeful, darwinian outlook on it; it goes like this- just like the weakest deer being the ones picked off by the wolf packs, so it is, that the slowest, stupidest braincells are the ones picked off by a nite of heavy drinking, therefor, you are left w/ the smarter, faster braincells to continue your life w/. doesn't that make you feel better? i can barely imagine how dazed and disoriented you must feel, to go from the squeeze of your last months, to the unfocused openness of your present- i go thru this every year on a small scale right now, when our crops are all done, and i have a month where i'm not a boss- both a blessing, and a little difficult to get used to. good luck, how about becoming a cat-trainer? susie

teacher?

[mathdoc-keeper.livejournal.com]

i agree with bob. after all you have combat experience...

love,
patty

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the gifts, brother! Such a wonderful surprise...

Hmm. Career. Job. Ugh. My only suggestion is to remember that nothing has to be forever. You can change. Many many times. It's okay. My husband was a chemical engineer (he even got a MS from Notre Dame in physical chemistry) and now he's a mesoamerican archaeologist (well, technically right now he's a pissed-off, disillusioned sargeant in the US Army!). I've worked in film production, non-profit administration. I've taught freshman comp at a university and I've been a cocktail waitress. It's all good! School's a good place to start, I think. And it's always interesting.

Take care and WELCOME HOME.

-- Kate (Broken Windows)

You had better not be partied out yet...

[tywick.livejournal.com]

Here's an idea for the more immediate future. You need to respond to my email so you can solidify your travel plans to Madison soon! There is a LOT of stuff going on you would no doubt enjoy attending within a short period of time that very same week. It'll be more a blast than Baghdad, I guarantee! (And plenty debaucherous, too.)
-Kristy

[blue-chicory.livejournal.com]

Just a thought, but you might want to update your location in your userinfo. Should be very satisfying :)

Monster

[blackeydgurl.livejournal.com]

You're a monster you make everybody cry (just like Mal). Although I have caused the baby Jesus to cry so hard he vomited. Really. Good to hear you're having fun, you deserve it!