The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

 

Greetings,

It is the weekend and downtown Waukesha is bustling with activity. Last night we had fireworks-yes in January and today we have ice sculptures, activities at the Retzer Nature Center, dog sledding-all kinds of family fun!

I was thinking about dropping in over at the church because they are having a blood drive, and I realized I am still perhaps a little “broken” for that. My veins still look like I am a junkie and frankly some of them are a little sore still. I should have called the Doctor to see if I could participate, so I think I should pass this time.

I would like to be out in the hustle and bustle, well the idea is always appealing, as to if I actually get my booty out the door that is another story all together. Really today is not an option, I am pretty sure tomorrow is not an option either. Accounting is dominating my life-the thing of it is I have no interest in accounting. Steve Jobs once said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Well, I don’t love this and it certainly shows in my work. I have no problem with hard work but my life is becoming dominated by useless work. I mean I realize we need accountants, but I am not going to be one of them. I have the math aptitude of a pin. I have spoken to a business owner , a banker, and someone in accounts payable/receivable…and it would appear that no one understands my accounting class.

In my prior posting I was talking about making some changes, I think this is one of those changes I really need to look at. I am getting a lot of joy out of school, I have enjoyed computer literacy, psychology(which we have not been focusing on enough) I love creative writing and literature classes-huge shocker. I wanted to set a good example for my son. I wanted to show my Dad I could do this (lame-don’t ask…my issue not his) I wanted to help people and do something useful.  I feel like I am mainly just accruing a huge debt, well no doubt about it I am accruing a huge debt, can I get extra credit in accounting as I just used accruing in a sentence?

“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.” ― Wendell Berry (2003)  The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Sick of questioning my reality…

You enjoy your weekend. Make sure you get some DO YOU time!

Love and Light!

 

 

Reference

Wendell Berry (2003)  The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays Counterpoint