Helpless
That's how I feel lately. I've got some personal shit going on, and today I'm watching Live Earth highlights, and I just feel like I should be doing more. I also watched Blood Diamond last night and thought it was an awesome movie, but clearly movies like that make people take a second thought for an evening, then they forget. I just want to be part of something bigger than going to an office everyday and looking for escape afterwards. I don't know where to turn and or steps to take, and I'm getting sick of waiting "for the right time"
4 Comments:
At 10:38 AM, green LA girl said…
Do you know what you'd want to do if you left your job?
At 8:32 AM, Grace said…
I hear you. Boy, do I ever. Are there any organizations of interest that you can volunteer with in San diego? There's always the "networking" way in...
At 9:22 AM, Russ said…
Siel, I don't know what I'd do if I left my job, that's part of my problem... I just don't know what direction to go in. I have a friend who says I could probably get another job in my field - computers - but at a company/organization that is making a difference. I look, I just don't see those opportunities; maybe I just need to look more.
Grace, there are some organizations, yea. I've tried in the past, granted not that much, but it's not really led me anywhere. I've thought volunteering would be a great "networking" thing, the place I volunteered at for a month helping with their website was sort of disappointing, I ended up in a room after hours by myself maintaining their web site ... Not much networking there! Probably just picked the wrong place. But part of the problem too is that I want to do everything, I don't have one particular passion. I'd love to help with humanitarian efforts, the environment, homeless. There is too much!
At 5:56 PM, green LA girl said…
I have an email alert set up via idealist that lets me know whenever a job from a nonprofit in Santa Monica gets listed. You can specify location and I think some stuff about the job. I haven't actually applied to any yet, but I do enjoy getting them -- They both let me know intermittently that I have a choice in what I do, and they give me ideas as to what else I could be doing.
But I wanted to say -- I didn't mean necessarily what you'd do in terms of another job. Better stated, my question is: How would you like to spend your time, or what do you think will make you happy, or like you've accomplished something, in life?
That was a more productive place to start for me than putting thoughts about obligatory money making first. Meaning: Of course having money had to be factored in later on in the thinking process. But having that as the first and primary thought kept me feeling stuck.
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