Guess who is unemployed again?!

Hey Campers long time since I updated this damn thing.

Well... it has come to pass AGAIN. I am unemployed.

Am I sad? No. The job, while I certainly learned a lot and gained more "tools on my belt of knowledge", it was at the end of the day a menial bullshit cog-in-the-machine corporate whore jerk off job. Some creativity but mostly "press this button here", "crop this image there", "spell check this synopsis here", "upload this to the web here".

It is true that while you always learn more at every adventure you find yourself in the work world (for good and bad), the most important thing I would argue that you learn is about yourself. And it's important not to be complacent and let your gellatenous grey matter between your ears soften and spoil with age. Life is about life experience and the community your surround yourself with. In fact I would argue that the meaning of life is friendship and community. Human beings wouldn't be alive as a species if it weren't for millions of years of evolutionary lessons that our ancestors learned and passed on from generation to generation for millennia.

One key thing I learned above all (and honestly it was something that I knew but possibly turned a lazy blind eye too) is that I can't work in front of a computer, doing computer-y shit that I don't care or am passionate about as a career. I'm not the cubicle bitch type, and If someone sees me backsliding to that smack me please! Like many passionate, creative people, I love to surround myself with those who are like-minded. (As the saying goes "Birds of a feather fly together.") And I love to talk... and talk (as many of my friends will tell you).

So in my journey through the unemployment minefields this time around I feel that I'm better prepared. More confidant. Happier. With an inkling in my head -- a realization that there is some sense of urgency that I know I had at one point in my life-- a sense of urgency that I feel It's imperative I harness again. And I suppose that this posting is a call to all my friends (and not) who read this to keep me in check. To encourage me as I will certainly try to encourage you. To love me as I hopefully have tried to love you in return.

They say in life everything happens for a reason. Now don't ask me to tell you who "they" are, but even if it's a little blind faith on my part I want to believe this is true. And I suppose the only way to believe that it's true is to make it true. Create my own destiny. Re-establish myself in my career and in my relationships. Not be afraid to take more chances. Meet new people. Have crazy unemployment sex. Fall in love.

The mathematician John Allen Paulos said, "Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security."

So here's to uncertainty. Here's to insecurity. Here's to Funemployment. Here's to creating worlds. Here's to creating destiny. Here's to creating now.

Who's with me?!!?