Comments on: Purrrrr Puss, Part II

By: elenamary

elenamary — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:47:25 +0000

dear lord i feel this entry. i’m trying to find a job until i am ready for med school…and the world, the job world too, well it sucks.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:43:20 +0000

I feel like such a fraud at times because I’ve never explored NYC. I always seem to continue on towards Barcelona, and every single time I say the same damn thing…“I’ll stay in NYC for a few days, then go to Europe” NYC I do crave thee!

By: oso

oso — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:19:37 +0000

Yes, well doc, you are actually doing some good there in Monterrey now. I was (we were) teaching uninterested business managers for multinational companies … which didn’t really have me feeling so idealistic.

Why doesn’t anyone ever tell me I’m overqualified for anything?

By: Dr. Cereal

Dr. Cereal — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:18:54 +0000

“What do you do with a BA in English?” Leave the Land of Sellout Opportunities, try to fund your love of travel/adventure through teaching, end up being broke most of the time, but with dreamy idealism intact.

Coincidentally, I was rejected by the NY Teaching Fellows for overqualification last year (apparently you can’t have any kind of prior teacher training).

By: ChrisN

ChrisN — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:03:00 +0000

PS, another vote for Moreno. NYC is *the* city.

By: mary

mary — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:26:57 +0000

I have to agree with Moreno. New York is the center of the universe. Period. I have a Nepalese friend who grew up in Kathmandu. Now he lives in Brooklyn and refuses to ever leave NYC. It is hard to even get him to come to Jersey.

By: patri

patri — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:47:44 +0000

Austinites are renowned for doing both: living the creative life and having the 8to5 job for the bills.

By: Rochelle Ardesher

Rochelle Ardesher — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:15:44 +0000

Thanks for getting my thoughts out there Oso and more importantly thanks for generating some thought provoking responses.

It’s funny because living in NYC, I find myself confronting the same dilemma over and over again: Should I pursue a career for money/security or STRUGGLE with a career I REALLY like/want. During the past 2 weeks I have been on 4 interviews in fields that are very diverse:

1. Executive Assistant= high salary, but totally and completely admin.
2. Production Assistant=low (and that is an understatement) salary, but totally up my alley.
3. Sales and Marketing= somewhere in the middle of my first two options
4. Temping for the rest of my life.

Thus, in the next few weeks I will again attempt to tackle the same question. I was recently given the advice, “as long as you are learning, making money, and having fun, in that order, that’s really all that matters.”

For me, somehow it is tends to be a bit more complicated…

By: logtar

logtar — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:49:46 +0000

Anon is right, I am just lazy… now Happy Birthday Gabo!

By: anon

anon — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:37:43 +0000

Sell out early, buy a house when you’re 30. It’s a helluva lot easier than waiting.