Ok sooooo yes, alright.  As of late, if you’ve been keeping up with my last couple posts, I’ve been at a loss for words which is really not my style….ever.  I have decided to

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

remedy this issue by doing what I used to do on my own blog that I will not shamelessly plug here —–> I told you I wouldn’t, geez have some faith.  Basically my old blogs were me rambling on and on about different things that I’d experienced or thought about that day.  Usually these ended up being about four pages of nonsensical craziness involving lists, pictures, elaborate imagery, and random tangents shooting off in every direction.  Tis true they were most good times indeed when I wrote that blog but alas, I traded up to this lovely blog.  Perhaps, it’s all the pressure that keeps me from just sitting down and writing or perhaps it’s simply that I do not feel as inspired to write while at home like I did when I was at school.  It’s a mystery, life is a mystery.  Boom!  I just laid a truth bomb on you.

I’m sitting on my bed trying to think of all that I’ve done lately and the only thing that comes to mind is work, work, work, and work some more.  I have already written a post on my job, an umpire, so I hesitate to speak much about it but perhaps I can morph the basis into a post about jobs in general.  Sound good?  Awesome.  Jobs, for the most part, suck.  At least that is the general consensus I’ve heard from my friends from all over.  A few really enjoy their jobs and hey, more power to them, but for the vast majority of us, we’re not thrilled with our regular jobs.  I don’t like to generalize, but I feel relatively confident on this one.  Each and every job has some perks and some hellish qualities as well but money is money and we all need money because unfortunately we are not all spoiled blonde heiresses born into money that they probably don’t appreciate at all.  I feel like that previous sentence got a bit spiteful…..

I try so hard not to hate you.

Anyway, I think what is important to remember when we look at our past, present, and future jobs, is not what it took from us but rather what we gained from it and I don’t mean your salary.  I’ll use myself as an example.  As an umpire, I take more *expletive* than just about anyone I know.  Does it get to me?  On occasion.  Do I let it affect my performance?  Never.  If I’ve gotten anything from my job over the last seven years (dangggggg that’s a long time in retrospect) it’s an infinite sense of patience, an amazing ability of selective hearing, the ability to stay calm under pressure, great people and leadership skills, and a wicked umpire tan.  Think farmers tan but only my brow down to my collar bones and my elbows to my hands.  Sexy, right?  With the skills I’ve not only obtained but developed, I have become  a much more confident in not only who I am but in the face of adversity.  Balls and strikes may seem insignificant when it comes to fighting what you believe in, but defending those calls have helped me to be more confident in my other choices in life.

I looked up celebrities to try and find a “cool” person you could connect to but alas all I could really find was that Kristen Bell worked at a yogurt stand where she served fruity treats that occasionally had fruit flies in them and that Mickey Rourke went and made sure people paid their “debts” to other certain people.  Not quite what I was shooting for but alas, c’est la vie.  I hope that you too can take a look back and be like, “Man, that job at the library really sucked, but hey, now I have a new appreciation for books.”  Or, “Starbucks was awful but now I can make wicked good coffee drinks for my friends at my apartment.”  Or even, “Dude, Home Depot was terrible but now I can build a sweet shed.”  (If you think of more of these please comment below!)  I suppose if I were to attempt to wrap up my blog in a sentence it would be this: While a job may seem useless and only a way necessary to legally obtain money, don’t close your mind off to the other benefits it could give you down the road.  Fin.

I think we all think like this just a bit deep down inside.

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