Job security, what I wouldn’t do to have you.

Last night, I had the privilege of driving my older brother home after the fast. We were planning to build our Sukkah in preparation for the last holiday of the month. Since I haven’t seen my brother for a while, let alone spoke to him for more than five minutes about something other than the car, I decided to ask him about my current job issues, and how I should handle them.

It was at that moment that I realized that my aspirations for my future occupation were the only ones that I could possibly follow. I went thorough a mental list of all professions I could possibly think of, and the schooling they involved, and all seemed to taunt me. True medicine would be almost impossible, seeing that I would have to deal with cadavers (without going into specifics, people of the preistly bloodline such as myself are unable to be under the same roof as a dead body, let alone within a few feet of them). Accounting and other such mathematic-based work are not appealing whatsoever, as math is not my forté and sitting in a cubicle for half of my life attracts me as much as eating a month-old dog carcass. Vocational work seems to be a nice option, though the work involved is back-breaking and I wish very much to be in good health.

Without going through the list of jobs I went through, I came to two jobs that I felt comfortable about. One was the job I am presently researching, a chiropractor with a degree in acupuncture, and the second idea was becoming a public speaker.

I receive plenty of humorous flak from people about my wish to become a chiropractor. “Why would you do that,” they ask “when you can become a real doctor?” My answer to them is thus: because I believe in it, and I think that it should be spread as far as possible.

And my dream to become a public speaker? Who knows. Maybe I’ll speak about the wonders of chiropractic manipulation and acupuncture.

My name is Simcha, and I’m trying to understand my present so I can make sense of my future.

~ by nameshifter on October 10, 2008.