Orientation

I was thinking the other day, as I was finishing a shift at Old Wive’s, crouched down and using a hose to clear a day’s worth of foodwaste from beneath an oven, that I need to shift gears in my life.
It has been not yet a year since I received my B.S. in Art, and it has been almost exactly six months since I started working the nighttime dish/pantry shift at Old Wive’s. It is almost needless to say that this is not where I anticipated being when I crossed the stage on June 30th, 2007.
So I have devised a plan: If I have not found a decent, respectable job as a graphic artist by June 30th of this year, I am going to get another degree. An MFA (Master’s of Fine Arts) from the best design school that will have me.

The average human spends their first 30 years on earth learning the rules, finding their place and paying dues so that they can spend the next 30 years working arduously in whatever field they have chosen. The remaining 30+ years on earth are spent reaping what has been sown by 60 years of learning and working.

Thinking about my own life in this way has allowed me to recognize the futility of my current situation and once again ignited the proverbial fire beneath my ass.

By this time next year, I will be either working in a design firm / in-house or be well on my way to choosing a school to attend in the fall of 2009.