What I've Not Been Doing...

17-Apr-09 at 7:04 PM
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Is Voxing.

I've not started up a new personal blog (yet) but increasingly I'm finding less and less inclination to type into this Vox window. Which is a shame because a lot has been going on lately.

For example:

Two days ago one of the men on my worksite showed up in my office in the midst of having a heart-attack, which made it my job to get him to hospital very quickly. I carried this out in a surprisingly matter of fact manner and since then I've gotten more praise for it than I think is due. There's been thanks and talk of "official commendations" and things like "you just saved someone's life" being said which I've got to say makes me uncomfortable. I can and do take compliments and gratitude with grace and appreciation but I can't help but feel like how I handled the situation was only exceptional because it happens so infrequently. I've always worked hard to be professional and credible in my work and I do a good job at it, but I also stand to the side because in all honesty I never expect to be taken seriously.

That's the source of my discomfort in all this, that now people are seriously patting me on the back which is something extremely foreign. I've always been fine with people not taking an interest in what I'm up to, my hobbies aren't mainstream, my ambitions are fringe, and my job is a safety blanket people hope will never need to be used. The fact that I'm pretty good at what I do, as well as being pretty bright is mostly irrelevant because I'm comfortable with not being recognized... even though all my ambitions involve global recognition. I'm starting to make no sense now so I'll leave this topic be.

In other news I'm very close to purchasing a new house. Which is exciting and terrifying. The thing is the house isn't built yet, so it will in fact be completely new and lovely. It looks as if we'll be signing the purchase agreement next week which will include a pretty hefty deposit, and then we wait until September when it's finished to pay for it in full. I'm starting to get excited about it now, I know we can afford it once we're past the down payments but it's a tight time to be gathering $15,000 in the mean-time.

Other than that I just had a birthday with subsequent hangover. I'm 27 now which means it's 3 years til I'm 30 and that's disgustingly frightening. Neither Tash nor I want to admit that we're adults yet. We like being younger than everyone, all our friends are older than us now, even in gaming, which helps us still feel young... though I fear that illusion will start to be harder and harder to maintain.

There. Vox. I posted. Happy now?

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great you saved a live accept the thanks and admoaration of your co-worker's and i'm sure some of them are thinking if you can do it so can they,you set a good example, just don't go to work tommorow with your fly down...

Hah. At 27 or even 30 you are still safe.

I'm 55 and the missus says I still don't act my age. The problem is though, the body is not so easily fooled. Things take a bit longer to come good.

I can see where you are coming from with the job too. It's safer to be quietly professional so you can pursue your hobbies in peace.

By the way, Happy Birthday and good luck with the new house.

yes, happy now, thank you

Ill be 27 this summer.. i wish i was in the position to buy a house instead of yet another year of renting.

Happy birthday! Glad you were around to help when that guy needed it. Not everyone is level-headed in that sort of situation, so you deserve some praise for your actions, even if you feel others could/would have done the same.

Good luck with the home-buying, too. Sounds really exciting!

Hahahah, you spineless kids these days. I'm more than 10 years older than you and I feel great :)

But the Y or Z or whatever the hell came after my supposedly X generation seems to freak out at age 25. Thinking they have to breed and gain world recognition before they "die" at age 30...heheh. Enjoy it buddy. You still have your whole life ahead of you.

And a belated happy birthday my friend.

Oh yeah...and well done on the life saving thing. And just accept it. Be comfortable with it. power attracts attention. It's a law. Saving a life is pretty powerful.

I tell you, if you'd told me at 18 that I'd be mostly done figuring out what my life path is and would be starting down it three years from 30, I woulda looked at you in utter horror and disbelief. I don't know what it's like in England (or South Africa) but here in Canada we're taught in high school that you should know exactly what you intend to do before you graduate so you can get your student loans in order. I wasn't sure about spending such a big chunk of money on learning to be a writer so I took a decade to "figure things out", I think it worked out, though if I were independently wealthy I'd probably go back to school.

Why man? WHY?

That's all a ploy to keep you into a bigger and deeper slavery than you already are.

Jesus, you can learn all you want for free by just getting a library card. And if it's the shiny diplomas you want..shit...for a modest price I can have them printed in the colours you like best :)

Besides...NOTHING takes longer than 2 years of obsessive intense study/learning to learn to do well so...why the fuck waste 4-7 years getting a piece of paper that says you theorethically can do something which in practice you actually probably know little about in the real world.

Why? Mostly it's for the environment. See right now I get payed to spend the vast majority of my time in the company of people who have no interest in what I'm actually doing and I in turn have only marginal interest in what they're doing - all the while I'm seeking out information and people who actually interest me over the internet, you being one of them. If I were independently wealthy I could spend money to hang out with people who interested me while surfing the internet for more people like you. That's why.
However, that's pretty much the only reason and since I do not have infinite wealth I'm not going back because all the information I'll ever need comes from this macbook and $100.00 a month for cellular internet access.

But...what I mean is...with a brand new shiny, still wet ink printed diploma from Harvard...you can make the same life choices you could with a real one....and sometimes even better choices without that piece of paper alltogether.

Trust me buddy, you don't need no steeenking piece of paper to do most jobs as long as you make a lot of money for the employer. Except say doctor or possibly lawyer and maybe astronaut or airline pilot.

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