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the 2021 daily meme, week 9
Mar. 4th, 2021 04:57 pmFeburary 26. What conclusions did you make about money as a child? It was something great to have; it was something to be spent carefully.
27. What would you like to have less of in your work right now? Children screaming in the background.
28. What did you love to do as a child? Play spy; pretend to be a hunter-gatherer; make toy critters from craft supplies and do censuses of them.
March 1. If you could choose freely, in which company or organization would you most like to work? Whatever company or organization that'll pay me an excellent salary with good benefits and reasonable hours, has a pleasant work culture, and has a product or mission that I'm okay with spending my time on. I don't have the urge to work for any given organization; I've heard too many horror stories of people going to work for their dream companies and finding that the place was actually awful to work at. And I've reached the point where I no longer consider my paid job part of my identity; a paid job is what gives me the resources to do the other things I want to do with my life.
2. If you didn’t have to work for money what would you most like to volunteer for? I really enjoy driving for the blood center, and I'd be happy to do that more often.
3. How could you realistically become healthier? Define healthier. I'm entering the part of life where many aspects of my health are going to get worse no matter what, starting with the massive increase in chance of heart disease, and the best I can realistically expect is to slow the decline. That said, a "healthier" choice I could realistically make is to only eat when I'm actually hungry.
4. What is something you want to learn how to do? ...okay, I can't think of an answer to this question, which worries me a little, but it may just be that since I'm already in the middle of learning a new hobby I don't have the brainspace for more. There's a lot of stuff that I like the *idea* of knowing how to do (speak and read Spanish, fly an airplane, do aikido), but when it comes down to it I don't actually want to put the work or money in to learn that thing.
Related to this: One of the things I've realized about myself over the years is that I have a really low threshhold for "screw this, I can't succeed so I'm not putting in any more effort". That may be one of the problems I'm having with writing; I've still got the goal of selling my work in mind, and that's keeping me from writing something that might not be salable but would still give me enjoyment. With improv, I didn't go in with high expectations or lofty goals in the first place. I'm not trying to become the next Jill Bernard, I'm not even trying to fill forty seats at a local venue; I'm just there to have fun and meet interesting people. So if anything, I'm probably putting in more effort to develop as an improvisor because I don't have high expectations of myself. I'm already succeeding well beyond what I'd ever expected when I started.
27. What would you like to have less of in your work right now? Children screaming in the background.
28. What did you love to do as a child? Play spy; pretend to be a hunter-gatherer; make toy critters from craft supplies and do censuses of them.
March 1. If you could choose freely, in which company or organization would you most like to work? Whatever company or organization that'll pay me an excellent salary with good benefits and reasonable hours, has a pleasant work culture, and has a product or mission that I'm okay with spending my time on. I don't have the urge to work for any given organization; I've heard too many horror stories of people going to work for their dream companies and finding that the place was actually awful to work at. And I've reached the point where I no longer consider my paid job part of my identity; a paid job is what gives me the resources to do the other things I want to do with my life.
2. If you didn’t have to work for money what would you most like to volunteer for? I really enjoy driving for the blood center, and I'd be happy to do that more often.
3. How could you realistically become healthier? Define healthier. I'm entering the part of life where many aspects of my health are going to get worse no matter what, starting with the massive increase in chance of heart disease, and the best I can realistically expect is to slow the decline. That said, a "healthier" choice I could realistically make is to only eat when I'm actually hungry.
4. What is something you want to learn how to do? ...okay, I can't think of an answer to this question, which worries me a little, but it may just be that since I'm already in the middle of learning a new hobby I don't have the brainspace for more. There's a lot of stuff that I like the *idea* of knowing how to do (speak and read Spanish, fly an airplane, do aikido), but when it comes down to it I don't actually want to put the work or money in to learn that thing.
Related to this: One of the things I've realized about myself over the years is that I have a really low threshhold for "screw this, I can't succeed so I'm not putting in any more effort". That may be one of the problems I'm having with writing; I've still got the goal of selling my work in mind, and that's keeping me from writing something that might not be salable but would still give me enjoyment. With improv, I didn't go in with high expectations or lofty goals in the first place. I'm not trying to become the next Jill Bernard, I'm not even trying to fill forty seats at a local venue; I'm just there to have fun and meet interesting people. So if anything, I'm probably putting in more effort to develop as an improvisor because I don't have high expectations of myself. I'm already succeeding well beyond what I'd ever expected when I started.