This post is about my ever changing career aspirations as influenced by what TV series I am currently watching.
Sometimes I think I’m a bit crazy, okay a lot of times I think I’m crazy. A lot of times I don’t know what I’m doing with my life (queue drama music) like what position I’m working towards, as the gist that appears below my blog’s name appears I seem to be floating. A lot of times I discard thoughts about career orientation and long term goals because I simply don’t know how to deal with these questions. And so the meandering mind I have has always floated and took fancy on different career options over time. This would be perfectly normal for a young person, not someone experiencing a bout with quarter life crisis. I have been working for financial institutions for all my professional life, after graduation I took a job with a big financial conglomerate that lead me to what I’m doing now. Even now I still consider switching career paths; I’ve recently started watching Newsroom the one with Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer and now want to become a serious journalist. In fairness to me, I really have considered a career in journalism in my past life. I was part of my School paper in high school and competed in inter school writing contests achieving moderate success haha! When I filled in my application to UP I chose Journalism as my first choice, Biology as my second (I wanted to become a doctor!).
In my freshman year in UP, our block took a career assessment test administered by the guidance counselor, I later found out that nobody really took that test. The test said that I’m an introvert and preferred working alone in a quiet and peaceful environment, most fit career was a LIBRARIAN (pak na pak) followed by being a LAWYER (vindicated!). I love reading and loved spending time in the library which was quiet and ventilation was really good.
Below is the sequence of my ever fleeting career aspirations as far as my memory can recall:
In this order
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| Ally McBeal - (Neurotic) Lawyer |
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| Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Vampire Slayer (for realz!) |
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| Grey's Anatomy - Doctor, the kind that doesn't include blood |
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| The Big Bang Theory - Physicist, really considered shifting majors to Applied Physics during my undergrad |
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| Suits - good looking Lawyer |
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| Newsroom - Journalist, although Sloane Sabbith makes a strong point for me to work on a Masters in Econ |
An exception to this is when I was reading the book Emperor of all Maladies written by Siddharta Mukherjee which influenced me to be a cancer researcher, oooh more than that I also wanted to be Mathematician when I read another book by Marcus duSautoy I’ll do another post about this later.
Come to think of it I thank God I didn’t think of becoming a drug dealer when I got hooked on Weeds!!!
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