I'm Saul, a junior in high school currently. I am the youngest of 5 kids, and have experienced many of the advantages (i.e., my older brothers would often be told off whenever they teased me) and disadvantages (the age difference between my next older brother, 5 years, has led me to have to do the work that my parents don't want to do) of being where I am.
My interests are many, and one that is particularly close to my heart is the dramatic arts. While I've been "trying" to keep a hold on "The Worst Dancer in the History of Mankind," the other two pillars of the stage are my forte, the singing and the acting. I've been playing parts like Cogsworth from "Beauty and the Beast" and The Voice of the Plant in "Little Shop of Horrors." I'm currently in a production of "Fame" in another town, playing the part of Mr. Sheinkopf. It's a relatively small part, but I've been with this company for three years now, and have been "moving up" in my part size.
If you were to ask me about what I would like to do after school, I wouldn't really know what to say. I've been saying for the past few months that I would like to be a history professor or a museum curator. But it has seemed to be everyone's prerogative to discourage my going into either of those jobs. The main rationale is either "You probably won't be able to find a place that will need that job filled," or "The salary is incredibly low, why don't you do something else?" It's almost that "doing whatever you love to do" has been replaced by "doing whatever brings home a lot of money" as the ideal mindset for picking a job. I would much rather work at a place where I have little money after all my needs are taken care of, and love that job, than being able to have wads of cash in my pocket, but hate everything to do with my job.
One thing you must know about my blog posts: my cynical attitude will show itself often, if provoked. If it's any consolation, most of said attitude is how I am off the computer.
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