HAPPY WORKERS DAY
Muguet en avance (Photo credit: ouistitis)
Today – 1st of May – is Workers day… at least it is in most of Western Europe’s countries , I’d love to know how it is in your country. In France, people give a symbolic flower called Lily of the Valley or “Muguet” in French. Evidently you’d have to be a worker to get one, so I would not… It is a pretty flower, isn’t it…
DUSTING THE INNER CHAOS
It is soon the end of my “high-school level” studies, which leads me to a first appraisal on my situation. It is a self-indulgence really but it is also a good way to clear my head… you should try it sometimes.
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- What do you do for a living?
- I am nearing 40 and I am still a student… why do you ask? (smile)
- Let me rephrase that… what do you want to do when you grow up?
- Not so sure this one’s better, but plan A would be to make a living out of my constant babbling on my blog, or finally getting the spark – which has been hiding in my chest for a while – that will make me publish my short stories (and sell them obviously)… or any of my creative writing for that matter.
- What’s plan B then?
- The studies that might lead to a job in the real world…
- There is not much certainty in either plan.
- What’s your question, love?
- Is plan A not the real world?
– Not as long as it has not become real.
– Yes, obviously… which world does plan A belong to then?
– Dream world.
- Okay, moving on… What kind of writer are you?
- It would seem that I am a progressive thinker and therefore I write progressive things.
- This means what exactly?
- Have you ever hear of progressive rock (rhetorical question… leading to a self-nod to acquiesce)? I am a progressive writer, which means that my writing is in constant evolution and has this particularity of being weird yet making a lot of sense when the reader lets it.
- Interesting… and how well is progressive rock doing today?
- As opposed to regular classic rock… not so well.
- How much of a shot do you have then on the literary scene with progressive writing do you think?
- More than if I did not try…
- Other writing projects?
- I have but it is too early to even mention them.
- Fair enough… so, tell me more about plan B.
- I have applied to a couple of Universities in order to get a degree in Economics.
- Is it not a wide spread competence in Sweden? Why did you chose that? How long will it take?
- It takes three years, full-time and I chose it because I am good at it. Sweden is always looking for people who have a University degree in Economics, and such studies have known a high demand on the student front… however, this year the demand on that front was not as numerous as it used to be which resulted in the cancellation of one program.
- Okay, but are you going to find work at the term of your education?
- I need to believe that I will.
- How old will you be then?
- I’ll be 40 when I am done with the studies which means that – provided that I get a job right after I got my degree – in order to enjoy a retirement life with my husband, I’ll have to work until I am 80 and live up till 100 years old… piece of cake…
- Isn’t that daunting?
- Not if I can help it…
- What if you find a job before you are done with your studies… what will you do then?
- I say: we’ll see when that happens. Let’s not put the cart before the horse!
- How does your future look like after all that thinking? bright? dark?
- Still foggy, yet strangely bright…
- Good luck then.
- Thank you.
- Don’t be a stranger.
- Wouldn’t dream of it.
