{"id":3038,"date":"2010-07-28T23:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2010-07-28T23:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T06:48:03","slug":"i-envy-those-who-dont-know-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"I envy those who don&#8217;t know what to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a non-acceptor.<\/p>\n<p>When someone complains about their work, but then they spend more than 10 years doing the same thing&#8230;and eventually say, &#8220;I am comfortable here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is the kind of thing that mows my brain into mush, the kind of thing that a deep scream wants to violently tear through the room&#8230;it&#8217;s that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>But if that someone doesn&#8217;t know what to do&#8230;then that&#8217;s a different kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Most people\u00e2\u20ac\u201din general in my observations\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddon&#8217;t have a clearly defined idea of <i>what they want to do<\/i>.  It&#8217;s usually aligned with a <i>I want to make money so that I can be like everyone else<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when I was 8 or so, I had decided that I wanted to create.  Create big things&#8230;create ideas&#8230;create masterpieces&#8230;and create things that could change people&#8230;to make people say &#8220;Wow, I never had thought of it that way before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, along the way, I found that I had a natural talent for analytical subjects\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmath, science&#8230;development.  I was good at project management&#8230;and had this slightly organizational side (digitally, fyi).  And so that smothered some of that creative yearning.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if everyone is born with natural motivation, goals in mind.  It doesn&#8217;t seem like most people are both with it.  After all, if that&#8217;s the case, then we wouldn&#8217;t have so many bus drivers, so many cashiers, so many accountants.  Or are there people who really dream of being a cleaning lady?<\/p>\n<p>There was once a friend said that careerwise, she just wanted to do something easy.  It was appalling to me.  But I have Western middle-class ideals completely entrenched in higher education and yuppie-ness\u00e2\u20ac\u201daim higher.  Add oil!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a non-acceptor. When someone complains about their work, but then they spend more than 10 years doing the same thing&#8230;and eventually say, &#8220;I am comfortable here&#8221;. It is the kind of thing that mows my brain into mush, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}