Saturday, February 20, 2010

Love is a Career

I've been meaning to write this down, but I didn't get around to it. My Design Colloquium class is quite interesting. The professor often uses dating analogies when she talks about the job hunting process. Things such as founding the right fit, a place where you can be yourself and where you can work to grow in your practice the way you want to. Don't get stuck in a place you want to be because the job is not going to change because of you. Never take a rejection personal, it's strictly business though there are emotional involved regardless you move on don't get stuck in a rut about it. Stuff of that nature and I thought about it long and hard, she is right. Your career shouldn't be about finding a place and love shouldn't be about founding somebody.

This all came into light as I was walking to the washroom in A.A. You want to find a job that compliments you. A place you want to be happy going to every morning just like the person you want to see at the end of the day. There is no point in being miserable at your job because you're going to go home miserable to whoever is at home waiting for you; there's nothing to worry about if no one is there. You can't settle, especially in your youth. You can't expect someone to change for you more than you expect your job to change for you. The thought that struck me hard was, you can learn to love your job, but your job will never learn to love you; unless you're one of the decision makers in the company then things might be a little different. Same goes for people, you can learn to love someone, but they're not going to learn to love you if you're just settling. I don't know if that makes any sense.

-David M.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Think About It

The people who want it will get it.
The people who need it will find it.

Think about it.

-David M.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

You Write Your History Then You Turn the Page


"You write your history then you turn the page."

This quote came to my head some odd evening during the week. I don't know what I was really thinking about when this line came into fruition. Just that I know you can't be stuck in the past, what has been written is written and there is no way of correcting what has been done. We as people should not stick on the page, we need to progress. The future is a blank slate and we write on these new pages; please do not use the past as a reference for new writing material. The future should be full of new ideas. I don't know, I just thought it sound nice.

-David M.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

22

I post this too many times on my birthday. I listen to this too many times on my birthday. :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAd8y61pxs


-David M.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Mundane can be an Eyeopener


Crossing my feet last night as I sat on the floor I noticed this.

-David M.

Thoughts: Strands that probably would not makes sense now or otherwise

Failure it's always a gateway to improvement.
When we lose things, less is more.
More becomes an abundance of useless things.
More become wants and we forget about necessities.
Wants are leisurely things, they're nice to have; others would agree to that.
What we do for people should not equate our value.
Just because you are accepted you should not be arrogant, you still can get kicked out.
Reliability is the best trait anyone can have.
Don't think of yourself as anything more than you are, and never think of yourself as anything less.

There was a list going through my head...I seem to have forgotten some.

Edit:
Any advancement good or bad is still a progression.
Nothing ever balances itself to a zero sum.

-David M.

I Dream of Defeat

Lately the thought and I've been having micro-dreams of myself. It begins, with me exhausted and sometime already beaten on the ground. I try to get back on my feet, but as I stand I'm approached by a person with a baton and it is forcibly swung across my head in a downward motion hitting the top of my right forehead. I am down again as distressed as I am I try to stand up again. That is when I wake.

I don't know what this all means...

-David M.

Prelude: February

I contemplated on should I be writing or continue watching Mad Men. In the end, I thought maybe my feelings weigh a bit more than a television show depicting a bunch of ad men on Madison Ave in the 1950s pitching their ideas for products people are no longer aware of besides a handful of design students. I'm saying this because no one knows what Lucky Strikes are and I grinned when they mentioned it in the first episode.

Anyways, February seems to be a good month, so far it's mediocre to me. It seems splendid for some, and going downhill for others. As an observer that's all I can say, not much I can do unless I know what needs to be done. I hope all goes well for all in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.

-David M.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Because the World isn't as Cruel as You Take it to Be.


"Because the world isn't as cruel as you take it to be."

From Durarara!!

-David M.