Not much to update. Still waiting on my puter, it just went in to testing. Joy.
I am finally taking the necessary classes required to graduate, and it only took me twenty five years to figure out what I want to do. WOO! I went through a ton of career options though. Most kids wanted to be astronauts, or cops, or firemen. Not me, no, I wanted to be an accountant. When I was 16 I was in a program called peer court, it is like mock trial but real. It was teens tried by teens, the jury were teens, and the only adult was the judge. After making a guys mom cry on stand I switched from wanting to be an accountant to a lawyer. I wanted to be a lawyer for a long time. People told me I'd make a great lawyer, they said I was a natural. Sure that was after I'd been arguing with them for ten minutes about pointless crap, but whatever. I've also wanted to be a psychologist. I've been watching people for the majority of my life, and seeing what makes people tick, so it was also something I am naturally attuned to. I don't remember why I stopped going after that one...it could be because I don't want to listen to people bitch all day. I have no doubt I could help people, but I'd probably snap at people too much and lose my license. I've wanted to be a nurse, a doctor, air line host, some member in a band (even though I don't know how to play a single instrument), actor, sreenwriter, movie director, comedian, motivational speaker, and many more. I have finally settled with sign language interpreter.
There are a few reasons why I want to be a sign language interpreter. One is I make my own schedule, I am my own boss. The most important part of that reason is that I'll be able to spend as much time with my kids, shall I ever have any (being an interpreter I don't see myself getting much ass
), because that's what was wrong with my child hood. My dad was rarely around, and when he was he was kind of vacant. So that is important to me. I want to be close to my children. Another reason is I don't take work home with me...well...because there is no work. I go, I interpret, I go get a beer, day over. If I work in the school system, which I won't be, I'd make 15-20 dollars an hour. Other places are 30-70 dollars an hour. Like video phone interpreting, that's 50 bucks an hour and easy as shit. I get to sit at the puter all day. Hell, I do that anyways. Warcraft + work = win. Court interpreting is 300 dollars a day no matter how long you work, unless the case is thrown out in less than thirty minutes. The court day is like six hours long, if you work for six hours and a minute it's an automatic six hundred dollars. Fucking sweet.
I really didn't mean to type much today, but there is a view in to my mind.
I am finally taking the necessary classes required to graduate, and it only took me twenty five years to figure out what I want to do. WOO! I went through a ton of career options though. Most kids wanted to be astronauts, or cops, or firemen. Not me, no, I wanted to be an accountant. When I was 16 I was in a program called peer court, it is like mock trial but real. It was teens tried by teens, the jury were teens, and the only adult was the judge. After making a guys mom cry on stand I switched from wanting to be an accountant to a lawyer. I wanted to be a lawyer for a long time. People told me I'd make a great lawyer, they said I was a natural. Sure that was after I'd been arguing with them for ten minutes about pointless crap, but whatever. I've also wanted to be a psychologist. I've been watching people for the majority of my life, and seeing what makes people tick, so it was also something I am naturally attuned to. I don't remember why I stopped going after that one...it could be because I don't want to listen to people bitch all day. I have no doubt I could help people, but I'd probably snap at people too much and lose my license. I've wanted to be a nurse, a doctor, air line host, some member in a band (even though I don't know how to play a single instrument), actor, sreenwriter, movie director, comedian, motivational speaker, and many more. I have finally settled with sign language interpreter.
There are a few reasons why I want to be a sign language interpreter. One is I make my own schedule, I am my own boss. The most important part of that reason is that I'll be able to spend as much time with my kids, shall I ever have any (being an interpreter I don't see myself getting much ass
), because that's what was wrong with my child hood. My dad was rarely around, and when he was he was kind of vacant. So that is important to me. I want to be close to my children. Another reason is I don't take work home with me...well...because there is no work. I go, I interpret, I go get a beer, day over. If I work in the school system, which I won't be, I'd make 15-20 dollars an hour. Other places are 30-70 dollars an hour. Like video phone interpreting, that's 50 bucks an hour and easy as shit. I get to sit at the puter all day. Hell, I do that anyways. Warcraft + work = win. Court interpreting is 300 dollars a day no matter how long you work, unless the case is thrown out in less than thirty minutes. The court day is like six hours long, if you work for six hours and a minute it's an automatic six hundred dollars. Fucking sweet. I really didn't mean to type much today, but there is a view in to my mind.
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Also, that sounds like a great job for you. Congratulations on figuring out what you want. That always seems to be the hardest thing to do.
Good to see you around again. Believe it or not, I miss you guys. You were lots of fun.