Return of the Rant

I noticed that I haven’t been writing for the past two months and the average count on my blog is about one visitor per day. I guess that’s how I keep a low profile these days.

So what have I been doing? Well, certainly NOT photography. I have to honestly say that I did very little since I transitioned this blog into a photography site. But recently I was learning some HTML and CSS and I was very disheartened to find out that no matter how hard I learn I’m just not going to get the whole thing. But I did use a book called Head First HTML. It helped me explain many things I didn’t understand before. So I ended up finishing the 600+ page book.

I also realize that I am a person with high self expectations and with my approach of things I will never reach my goals. So most of the time I do the only thing I could think of: give up. But now I think I’ve found something I can work on. Let me explain.

Realize oneself is the first thing to becoming something. That is to say we all have special abilities and each of us are different. Finding your ability, or abilities, is a hard road to walk on. Some people know it from an early age, while some of us need to discover ourselves.

Having a dream or a goal is essential for achievement. I realized it’s hard to find oneself when there are no goals set. Having a goal also gives motivation, and through motivation we have achievement and ultimately happiness.

Lastly, I think hard work is a requirement for success. Actually I did not think so until I read it in a book. I used to be a hard worker but now I feel lazy. I need to pick myself back up and start cracking, so to speak. I’m sure some people who are reading this feel the same thing. There’s no better time to start than now.

Now I look at my life and I realize there are several important principles I live by. And here they are:

1. Whatever I do, career wise or else, I try to do it on a minimalistic style.
2. And whatever I do I try to do it on a mobile scale.
3. And whatever I do I want to do it without involving so much materialistic things.
4. I always want to travel light, have less things, keep the essentials.
5. I want the freedom to create at any time.
6. I want to do things that are easy and natural to me.

I think the last one is the key in the hole because if I got that then I would have found my skill.

And what would my skill have to be… Perhaps a game of elimination may help.

First off I majored in chemistry in college and now I don’t very much want anything to do with chemistry. So there goes graduate school for the sciences.

Second, some people think that I’m good at photography. But now I’m bored with it. There goes photography, and painting,  or any other art field.

Third, I thought about going to graduate school for architecture. But now I believe it’s not worth the money and time.

As it turns I pretty much dislike any graduate schools that either requires a lot money (i.e. master programs) or takes too much time (i.e. PhD programs).

I also will not go into the medical fields such as nursing, dentistry, MD, DO, etc since I was premed but than decided not to go.

So it turns out I might go into a one year master program in accounting. We all know accountants have one of the most boring jobs. But I believe it is a good job for me because it helps me stay grounded since I tend to have lofty thoughts all the time. Also it pays more than most jobs and seems to be stable enough.

My plan is to work for a few years, not long, then I want to take all my money and spend it on world traveling since traveling is my dream.

Now let the dominoes fall.