A job I could call a dream.

What kind of job would you like to have?
When I was 5 years old I answered many times this question... sometimes I answered that I wanted to be a veterinarian, sometimes my answer was "a  musician" but what I answered the most was "An inventor". An inventor? you may ask... yes, an inventor, someone that somehow invent things. What kind of things? 
I wouldn't be able to answer that. I don't know. I dreamed about weird trees and meteor shaped spaceships but never about how to build anything.

Years after my ideas about my future changed. The question was not the same anymore. It changed to "What would you like to study at the university?". Of course that question had no meaning for a 12 years old kid... and no answer for a 17 years old. Nonetheless the 12 years old version of myself thought the answer was clear: "Philosophy". I got the idea because that was what my uncle Javier studied but as soon as I told him he yelled at me "don't you even think about studying philosophy!!!". Of course I couldn't understand how hard was to have such a degree with no job, two kids and a wife expecting a third one. 
A few years passed and my experience in high school clearly pointed at three subjects: Physics, Biology and Philosophy. Nevertheless the hard mixture of a sensitive character, a self-imposed lonely adolescence and a few tragic Shakespearian love stories drove me to a path full of sad and self-pitying literature. Hemingway's The old man and the Sea, Cortazar's Rayuela, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and others gave me enough reasons to avoid any faithful thought about the future. 

At the age of 18 years old I was already a grown man but still an immature kid on the inside. Nevertheless my mood changed to a very positive way of living. Without thinking much on the future I choose to use the results of my PSU test on studying my current career at Universidad de Chile. 
Soon I found that the world is different from high school and the question changed again. First it was something like What would you like to do for a living? what job would you enjoy to work in?, then sooner than later it changed to Are you ready for working? from what job are you expecting to obtain the money to leave your parent's house? will you even get a job? and, in the case you get one, will it be related to the career you studied? Statistical answers to these questions are brutally pessimistic.


What job would I like to have to make me feel complete and happy? 
I don't know yet. maybe something related to applied natural science, statistics and programming... And no neckties please.
I don't expect to become rich tho.  Just something that allow me to live a very simple and economically sustainable life.

To live without stress, that's what I would call my dream.


  





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  1. lourdesOctober 7, 2017 at 4:31 PM

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