Ok, so now that everyone is coming down from their Triptophan high, I thought I would do a semi-thought provoking post. It is a short questionairre, and I think it is interesting. It's applicable to everyone who reads my blog, mostly. For Jason and Crystal, if you answer it, answer liberally. Also, the answers cannot be "because i need money" or "because I signed a contract" unless that's the only answer that applies. OK, here we go.
1. Why did you enter the field/job/thing you do? What prompted it?
2. Why do you continue to work in the field/job/thing you do?
3. Is that the area you want to work in? What is the area you want to work in? Why do you want to work in that field?
I have been wondering about Purpose lately. Why do people do the things they do? I am not thinking, ya know, divine purpose or anything like that, I mean self-inspired purpose. And I guess I wonder about even more specific than "because it's what I love." Why do you love it? Is it for the challenge? The people? An ideal you hold dear? I wonder about this.
So satisfy my questions, wake yourself up from your turkey stupor, and write a thingy here. I want answers, dang it!
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this one's a total no brainer
1) i wanted to have a job that was both intellectual challenging and fun with a significant competitive edge. Bottom line, dinosaurs and crocodilians are cool and that makes my job half hobby and half work. 2nd grade's dinosaur unit hooked me.
2) because i am convinced that "rock star" is the only job better than mine - it's just not cerebral enough to entertain me for the long run.
3) yeap. since i was 7 this is all i've ever thought about doing. no other job prospect beyond artist (ad design, studio art, animation, etc) ever even came under serious consideration. bottom line, "my job is funner than yours, and you know it!" is a broadly applicable statement.
Hrm... my answers are gonna be a bit odd as, well I am currently not doing what I want/love.
1. I am facinated by the body, how it does what it does and why it does what it does both in the brain and in the 'meat'. It was natural for me to tent towards Biology and Psychology. Once I realized that Psychology is not a real science, that sort of cinched it for me.
2. Why do I currently work as a nothing, because I was to stubborn to bend my head and take a crappy job I didn't want since finding a science job out here is not easy. I had been holding out for a better job but a better job has not appeared. Its time to suck it up.
3. My dream is to be a student. If I won the lotto tomorrow thats what I would do with my life. Learn and research, and live in hundreds of places around the world. Think of it like 6 months of learning, 6 months of touring.
But in the case of myself, Jason and I want to live in different places around the world. I am willing to put aside my passion for biology (and a new found interest in behavioral conditioning) to do so for now. While I am young and able, I want to see the world. The job as the creapy old student in class or the lab rat can wait.
Crystal you're my girl!! Behaviorism Rocks!!!!
1. Well I started out at FSU being a bio and psych major... haha, weren't most of the students there? In high school I was really interested in bio/biopsych/neuropsych. So when chem didn't like me I stuck to Psych , and god was I disappointed, as crystal said... I'd be hard pressed to call reg. psych a science. So as I waited for my appt. with my advisor I saw a little pamphlet, "Do you like Psychology? Do you like business? Then try Performance Management." and it described the entire 4 class curriculum, and certificate process. I read it, and it made sense, I read it and felt like i was not going to live under a bridge for the rest of my life. I took the classes, and it was Behaviorsim for business. AMAZING! I fell in love.
2. I continue to work in the field because it makes sense! It is based in evolutionary theory, and it just plain and simple makes sense. Forget regular psych... that's garbage. Behaviorism is where it's at! I've seen the light, and wow is it pretty! Ok, so the other thing that keeps me here is that I'm reinforced by seeing the change that I basically create in my clients! I love changing my client's behaviors.
3. I love this field, I want to keep on working in this field. I want to get back into the business track though, I get a kick out of the clinical side of things, it creates some awesome stories to share with others, but I really need to focus on the business track again. I'm an Applied Behavior Analysis nut!! and paul.. you think your job is fun... you should try mine... dinosaurs and crocodilians cannot be as fun as changing people's behaviors or any other organism for that matter! :P
Answer liberally, eh?
I'll break it down into two sets of answers then. The first comment will relate to the field itself, and the second comment will relate to the military/Air Force, since I definitely see the two as entirely separate.
Know that when I refer to this field, I mean as a linguist, rather than the cryptological aspect of the job--or any other part of it.
1. Why did I enter this field, and what prompted it?
I came to college thinking that I wanted to major in computer-something, becuase I liked computers. When I saw how much math that requires, I changed my mind--at least, I think that's wny I changed my mind. Either way, I really didn't know what I wanted to do after that, so I just didn't do anything--as you all know.
I took it as a sign that of the 30+ credits I signed up for in my two semesters at FSU and two semesters at TCC, the only classes I actually bothered to participate in were the language classes. This, combined with my enjoyment of language-learning made this field seem like the right/logical choice.
2. Why do I continue to work in the field that I do.
I'll re-write this answer, since you were looking for more than "because I enjoy it."
How is, "becuase I'm good at it?"
Or maybe I simply stumbled into it and am now so heavily invested in it that I don't want to 'change horses mid-stream.'
It could also be that I still have no better idea what I want to do than when I was in college, but here this is right in front of me.
I do enjoy the challenge, I do enjoy being good at it--being better than other people at it. I also enjoy always having something new to learn. No matter how far I go in any one language, there's always something more about it that I don't know--even English and I've had 25+ years' practice with it. Aside from that, there's always another language out there with even more to learn.
Then there are the generic, pre-packaged answers: It gives me a skill that most americans lack. More opportunity for a broader selection of employment/travel/movies/books/video games.
And, what may well be my favorite of the moment, there are 1.8 billion + 127 million people that I can converse with and you can't.
3a. Is that the area you want to work in?
Yes--and I'll refer you to the next question for elaboration.
3b. What is the area you want to work in?
Based on what I know up to this point, this one. Caveats as mentioned above. Linguistics and Languages. I would be fine with just learning languages, however in the interest of doing something to generate some sort of monetary income, I could see myself doing language instruction or translation work and being content with myself work-wise. On a more academic vein, I'd like to see myself learning more about the way languages work, or learning more about how languages and people get along, in addition to merely learning languages themselves.
3c. Why do you want to work in that area?
This is answered in Question 2.
... there's no need for me to answer these as they relate to the military.
Forget I said that I would.
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