Plans for the Future
I feel like a record that's stuck on repeat because every time I sit down to write something, the only thing that I can really talk about is how my job isn't really panning out to be how I had thought it would be. Meaning that instead of actually having a job, I spend my days commuting to Long Island to sit on the internet, browsing news about the NFL and tinkering around on the Linux forums, searching for reasons to expand my 40 gig Ubuntu partition.
Recently I have been doing a LITTLE work, and by little I mean that in the past week, I have probably done around two hours of real work. I've been trying to work my way into working with Visio and doing dataflow diagrams. I was given one the other day and churned that out. I got a little praise for doing a good job, but other than that, it's been pretty quiet. Hopefully I'll be getting another one of those to do today.
There's been some stirring news on the home front. For some reason, which honestly doesn't bother me, Laura has been getting a little frustrated with our life in New York. I think that she and I are really tired of sitting in New York, just working our jobs and now really seeing any sort of future. I think it comes down to both of us being "Goal Oriented" and right now we don't really have any set goals. Other than just making money and living, we don't have anything that we're striving for, and honestly, that's a problem. So after a little bit of talking, Laura is again looking back into going to Law School. She has decided that because she has a very analytical mind, that going to Law School would allow her to have a career where she could analyze things and argue, two things she is particularly good at. It's kind of funny because just the other day I told her that if she were going to go to law school I would have a hard time being there for her, because at that time she didn't have direction. There is nothing worse, in my opinion, than just going to school to get a degree and not using it. It's the biggest waste of time I can imagine. But in this case, Laura is actually planning on being involved in Family Law and maybe having her own practice one day. Who knows. But the good thing about having something like that in the future is that it is a goal and gives us something to work for.
Laura really wants to end up going to U.Texas Law, which is quite a good school, but it's going to be hard for her to get into. I sincerely hope that she's able to get in because that would allow the two of us to move to Austin and after she's done with her first year of school, and I've established residency, I will hopefully be able to get into the McCombs School of Business at UT. As I said, these are just rough plans, but they are moving us in the right direction.
I feel that until we have actual plans, things are going to be pretty stressful because we are both creatures that need direction and just a goal of making money isn't enough.