This Stuff Isn’t Worth Worrying About

March 14, 2009

Again I’ve been thinking about the future, my future, where it lies and what I plan to make of it. And again, everything seems so damn uncertain, even more so when you throw China into the equation, and China is an important part of the equation. I like being comfortable with where I’m heading but the past few years, my ideas seem to escape me.

Coming back from China has thrown everything to the wall again. Now there are two countries involved and that can only be messy. Now that I’ve thrown my marketing major away to the fishes, I also don’t really know what I’m going to do, when my time at University is up. I don’t feel particularly qualified for anything.

I’ve been looking through job classifieds and the Uni web portal in search for possible jobs. I’ve found some, but not many. My specialization is now design, and I don’t feel well suited to do that, so with that out the way, I am left with language/writing. I guess this could vary from anything such as a language teacher/writer/cultural consoltant of sorts.

In Shanghai there is an obvious demand for language teachers, so I could do something along those lines. Over here in Australia, I’m less sure. So many jobs are either management/marketing/business and I don’t want to do anything within that trifecta. Of course, I could also do writing for the web or something like that. I’ve been doing some freebie posts here and there, but have also started receiving money and other bonuses, which is reassuring. On the whole though, I don’t think that I’ll be able to make any sort of full time work out of writing, it needs to be accomodated by something else.

There’s also the matter of whether or not I want to return to China, and I think that is likely. I enjoy living in the challenging environment – it’s ideal for improving my Chinese and that’s a bankable asset, many of my bestest best friends are located there, living expenses are incredibly cheap and it ensures that I don’t seem like a lazy moucher if I am living overseas. I love the latter, you get a good image from living abroad. Still despite all this, everything is up in the air.

Which I why I need to stop worrying about it, I think. These things will undoubtedly come in their due course, I’m a good person and fortunately have plenty of options.

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