I'm a free-spirit....?

A free spirit needs no underwire.


Been going through some issues at work. There's a job posted on the bullitin board for a manager's position that I think I could be qualified for... But then I get back to what I was doing before I was so rudely interuppted and it's the one thing I do like about my job: chasing abstract geometrical entities with a robot. New stuff. Stuff that I can do, and most others can't. The manager's job would be managing people who are doing one of the aspects of my job that I dislike, or put up with at the least... monkey work. Feh! I'll stick with what I'm doing for now... Managing people? Too much group think, I think.

So, enough about me, now we will discuss 'k. I can't, for the life of me, imagine little_k in a cube farm. I wonder a bit about the conversation you had with the 'rents... was all the talk about weddings a subtle dig at your single status? Who needs it? a free spirit requires another free spirit for happiness... Look at me, I married a hippy!

S'anyway...

Stay free!

i have no idea what just happened.....

SP - nope, no stab at my single status. My parents are also pretty free of box-thinking. I can't see me (not many people could) in an office cube either. I'd like to find a way to make a decent living doing something interesting. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.

Managing people sucks. It has some perks, especially if you are lucky enough to have a good group. But generally... sucks.

k, I think you'd crawl the walls in an office cube...I have my moments but, I hide it well...its all about where your spirit can go when you're somewhere you dont want to be

This is kinda tricky.

I'm not really great in a cube, but I've always had an issue about how my bills will be paid when I'm older. So I've found my way to a fairly non-cube cube. The non-cube cube owners need people who think in fairly non-traditional ways, while being aware of other people's rules and ways. It was a bit of a slog to find a reasonably not annoying place to make a living. Worth it, I think.

I think sometimes people have to think about the old chestnut of "do you work to live, or live to work?" I am definitely working to live (and retire). I am not career-track oriented. I was invited to that track a few times - did a run wearing suits with padded shoulders, and carrying a briefcase. I'm glad I opted out of that.

This is why I consider teaching. Lots of BS to deal with, but not cubish at all.

errrrrr
i dunno
i'd say teaching is much more cubish than what i do
i know i wouldn't be able to fit into the rules set out by most school boards

i worked with a lot of teachers who were on stress leave when i was in the briefcase part of my life - bureaucracy rules in that world

True, that's why I keep veering away. But, it's active and ever-changing (classrooms, school years).

I found teaching the cubiest of the various professions I've tried. You do eventually get more autonomy, if you're lucky, but beginning teachers have so many people breathing down their necks and so many rules...

ickypoo

I thought I was a free spirit until my wife said "no."

A free spirit is actually in the unimaginably complicated webs of causalities.
Any will is bound in the causality, and any will determines the process of the chains of causality.

yes, but still, there's a bit of autonomy in the nitty gritty day to day existence of any individual. Or at least there is from my perspective.

On occasions a certain set of choices is pressed (although rejectable) through emotions or other thinking. Emotional results sometimes count as well as factual ones. In a precise sense free choice is very difficult in situations where passions prevail.

Like those suicide bombers?

Or, like those in passionate love.

Me to k and I have grown to dislike the label. I am spontanous and love to have fun. But I am also serious and when necessary buckle down and get to where I am going.

Rules and regs make me nuts but as a union activist I found myself in the middle of enforcing them, ugh.

When people ask me about I simply tell them I am like water I get where I am going no matter what.

Interesting, JD. I think that superficially I come off as being a bit rigid, maybe it's more reserved (it's the new england rearing). A person will quickly learn I'm less so than they originally thought. Funny thing is that when I care for the children I am probably more stern than all the parents are.

Funny I have never thought of you as rigid, just talented and fun and of course a fee spirit. You are correct we all have a certain way of presenting ourselves and it is often based on the region we grew up in.