Lately I've had trouble focusing my vision, keeping a good sleep pattern and had a touch of high blood pressure. I thought it might have been something more serious so I went to see an eye doctor. After a thorough check-up he said my eyes were fine, they just dropped back a point in each eye since LASIK. During the check-up he asked me a few personal questions about what was going on since he last saw me (it has been awhile since I've been to see my eye doctor (they recommend going every year, but since LASIK my eyes seemed fine)) and it sounded like he wanted to catch up a bit.
Long story short he basically said I could probably chalk up most or all of my symptoms up to stress. I have just started a sales/customer support type job just a month before. While I can do an OK job in customer service, I don't see this as any calling of mine (definitely not my forté). Customer service can be quite stressful at times and it isn't something I seem to handle as well as others (maybe other people just hide it better). Perhaps like the blog title suggests, 'Different Strokes for Different Folks', that everyone has something they can do, and do well; and this just isn't something I have been destined to be great at or handle as well.
Sadly most of the jobs here in the Great US of A seem to be in customer service type jobs and a lot of the manufacturing or repair has been tossed aside to robots or just giving the customer a shiny new product. I enjoy computer repair and would not mind working on a computer with a client right there, however even these jobs are short in supply as most people now are computer literate and don't need or want a hands on approach. Technology is cheap and they can just get a new PC for nearly the same price as a few repair services or they have someone that they have that does it for free.
It feels sometimes that I was born in the wrong era. I would have liked to been in the age where parents handed a trade job down to their children, and most jobs were hands on type of work. Like Morgan Freeman said in Bruce Almighty "People underestimate the benefits of good old manual labor. There's freedom in it. Happiest people in the world stink like hell at the end of the day." --- It's really too bad this kind of thing doesn't happen as much anymore and a lot of training is now formal education and then working for someone who you do not know as well (that is if you do get the job in your related field of study).
'To each his own' might work just as well - either way I guess it's a nudge in the direction of not staying in one place too long and to keep moving forward in life. (end rant) :P
Tell me about it. What happened to the time when a Philosophy degree meant something! There is something to be said for being able to create, get your hands dirty and feel compensated - monetarily and spiritually, in a sense. Gone are the days of the TV repair man...just toss it to the curb and go buy a new one. It's a sad statement for our culture. I have been thinking about putting together a time capsule and burying it in the backyard, but what to include? What would do this era justice and reflect the good, the bad and the ugly? What would you put in your time capsule?
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