Willy Loman?

I went to yoga class for the first time in several weeks. For some reason, I feel as though the instructor has taken an interest in my development as a person as well as as a yogaer.

-----That last sentence is kind of awkward and bad. But when I went back to adjust it, I kind of fell in love with the last nine words. First off, four of those nine words are 'as.' Another is 'yogaer.' As if that weren't enough, the number of words between the ases lessens with each occurrence of the word (i.e., as word word as word as as). Sweet. I'm sorry, I just can't change a happy little accident like that.-----

She's always asking what's going on in my life and giving me advice. Each class, she has a little life lesson that she's gotten from some reading or experience or whatever that she passes on to the students. And today's lesson seemed like it was aimed directly at me. Before class, I had told her that I was still looking for work, and then during class her little gem for the day was that sometimes what you have to do is concentrate on making the right next step. Don't worry about the twentieth step, just make sure the next one is a good solid step. She looked at me a lot when she was saying this. I'm not going to dissect how this lesson applies to me because you can all probably figure it out by applying some fairly basic deductive reasoning to the name of this blog.

So today I was wondering, what would be a good next step for me careerwise? And I didn't know. I have a lot of hobbies, writing, reading, playing guitar, running, doing yoga, and playing poker, but none of those skills seem quite at the level of career-skills at this (heh, if you get ahead of yourself while typing the word 'this,' you end up with a swear) point in time. Maybe writing. Maybe. And then I started thinking, what about sales? Job listings always seem to be jammed full of sales positions, and I've avoided them like a urinesoakednerfball. I've always hated the idea of a job in sales. H-Ah-Ate-ed. But the thing is, it's just the idea of sales that I hate. I've never actually had a job in sales. How can I judge whether I'll like it or not? So, in the next few days I'm going to pick out the sales postings that look the most appealing (as well as any other postings that I may be suited for) and apply like I mean it.

By the way, I stopped by a couple of the music stores in the area today. They're not hiring. But I got to talking with missingtoothedrepairguy at one of the shops, and he told me the name of some good books on guitar repairs. I've always been interested in guitar repair, but never actually pursued that interest. So now, thanks to that very nice fellow (20), I know where to start. Heh. Another hobby for me. Woohoo.

I'm grateful that I'm going to be eating Chinese food in the very near future (20).