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6/31: Don't you dare crash, LJ.
Dec. 6th, 2011 08:15 pmLet's think about the future today. What will happen? Where do I see myself? What about the world?
Because, to be quite honest, I am scared to hell of what's going to happen in the future. Everything I see around me, on the news, in the street, hearing conversations - they all paint pictures of things I'm not sure I want pictures painted of.
I'm going to try and be productive for this one, though.
The first one, the worry of so many people my age or younger: will there ever be anything like a real job available for us in the future? What'll even count as a real job? Sure as hell not what I'm doing now. Work deals with The Big Banks. Stock exchanges. You know, all the kind of things that folks in tents are all out there protesting against.
I have more sympathy with the Occupy Stuff crowd than The Banks, and yet it's Big Finance that I'm working for. The company that owns work is Big Finance enough to have freaking conspiracy theories about it! This is not a situation that is much leading to contentment.
Still, enough with the work rants! I work rant my head off! Other things, then?
Linked to that, though. Will I ever get a place to call my own? The big advantage of living with my folks is the fact that so much of my paycheck can go into the 'Get Emmi A House Fund' rather than anything else, and they're happy to have it that way. But I don't want to go from living with them to buying a place. And renting seems just damn near impossible.
What will that place be like when I get it? Heh, I have dreams. Somewhere that everything isn't outside of walking distance. Perhaps somewhere handy for trains and buses, too. I love some of the green architecture and new technology I see, but trying to get any of that involved would be outside of any budget I can immediately imagine. Still, can imagine it, can't I? It'll be warm. That's the one thing I need to work out. I've lived somewhere that goes freezing in an instant too long for anything else. Will it be big, or small? I don't need big, but I'd love space to work on things. Perhaps having a decent work area'll get me away from the computer, haha. Some kind of yard or garden space: that goes with the work space thing. I want to be able to work hands on. It's a thing I love, so why don't I do more of it?
Maybe I could start making stuff, selling stuff. A friend of mine's trying to go down that road, and I wish her all the best in it! I think we've got to make our own way if we want to make any way at all these days. I hope that I can work out what that way is, at least, hopefully soon enough - damn, I say this too much, but I don't make much progress in it!
Oh well.
Because, to be quite honest, I am scared to hell of what's going to happen in the future. Everything I see around me, on the news, in the street, hearing conversations - they all paint pictures of things I'm not sure I want pictures painted of.
I'm going to try and be productive for this one, though.
The first one, the worry of so many people my age or younger: will there ever be anything like a real job available for us in the future? What'll even count as a real job? Sure as hell not what I'm doing now. Work deals with The Big Banks. Stock exchanges. You know, all the kind of things that folks in tents are all out there protesting against.
I have more sympathy with the Occupy Stuff crowd than The Banks, and yet it's Big Finance that I'm working for. The company that owns work is Big Finance enough to have freaking conspiracy theories about it! This is not a situation that is much leading to contentment.
Still, enough with the work rants! I work rant my head off! Other things, then?
Linked to that, though. Will I ever get a place to call my own? The big advantage of living with my folks is the fact that so much of my paycheck can go into the 'Get Emmi A House Fund' rather than anything else, and they're happy to have it that way. But I don't want to go from living with them to buying a place. And renting seems just damn near impossible.
What will that place be like when I get it? Heh, I have dreams. Somewhere that everything isn't outside of walking distance. Perhaps somewhere handy for trains and buses, too. I love some of the green architecture and new technology I see, but trying to get any of that involved would be outside of any budget I can immediately imagine. Still, can imagine it, can't I? It'll be warm. That's the one thing I need to work out. I've lived somewhere that goes freezing in an instant too long for anything else. Will it be big, or small? I don't need big, but I'd love space to work on things. Perhaps having a decent work area'll get me away from the computer, haha. Some kind of yard or garden space: that goes with the work space thing. I want to be able to work hands on. It's a thing I love, so why don't I do more of it?
Maybe I could start making stuff, selling stuff. A friend of mine's trying to go down that road, and I wish her all the best in it! I think we've got to make our own way if we want to make any way at all these days. I hope that I can work out what that way is, at least, hopefully soon enough - damn, I say this too much, but I don't make much progress in it!
Oh well.
