yet another business proposal
The 4th in 2 years, and the 2nd in 3 days, but to be fair, the only serious one of the bunch (though the offer to be the lead mechanical engineer on this fashion designer’s collapsible heel project was semi-serious). Coming yesterday, when I was feeling more tired of my job than usual, this guy’s proposal to be his partner in marketing some new civil engineering software, at the very least made me hopeful. Despite being quite skeptical of the whole thing, I figure as long as it’s only my time at stake, there’s not much to lose. Except my time I guess. Which is becoming more and more of an issue of late. If by fall I add this “side business” to my 4, 5 hours a week of volunteering, one course each semester at some local college, perhaps studying for the FE exam (just in case I decide to stay in engineering long term), and ideally tutoring so that I don’t forget all my math, a lot more than my blog and folding my underwear is going to get neglected...
posted by Goldie @ 10:12 AM
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You are beautiful, intelligent, accomplished, and athletic. But it strikes me that the singular thing you have yet to attain is your own approval. Believe it or not, I suffer from the same thing.
Ah Michelle, surely most of that is not true (but thank you!), but more significantly, even if it were, it would hardly warrant my self-approval. If I could make progress in the direction of becoming less self-absorbed on the other hand...though, applauding myself in that case would be rather inconsistent...
And besides, currently my biggest challenge at work is (good-humored) submission to authority (I thought I got over this shortcoming in high school, but guess not..), especially when I feel like I'm smarter than the authority, even if I'm well aware that their experience surpasses any extra IQ points I have over them...And adding in cockiness wouldn't help the situation.
I don't think self-approval and submission to authority are mutually exclusive, though I don't really see how self-approval ties into your post.
Why take a class each semester? What subject?
Self-approval and submission to authority are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but self-approval without cockiness is a rare find, and cockiness gets in the way of submission to authority…
You’d have to ask Michellle how self-approval ties into my post (I didn’t bring it up).
I would like to take classes so that I meet the requirements to apply to grad school in Fall of 2007...Which reminds me, I better start looking into enrolling...
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