Comments on: Banished, Part 2

By: L

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:55:00 +0000

the key is to have a steady paycheck while pursuing your dreams outside your regular job, but then you just don’t have enough time for anything….

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:15:00 +0000

yeah, but it turns out I’m a risk-averse evenly right- and left-brained artist, so I’ll leave all the crazy-ass shenanigans to the musicians. Now they’re nuts.

By: tacit1

tacit1 — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:24:00 +0000

Lots of connection among a certain group of us bloggers lately. GD also inspired my 2 most recent posts (also dealing with dreams & reality)…

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 04:23:00 +0000

No Bad Days – That ought to inspire some of us…

By: nobaddays_in_sd

nobaddays_in_sd — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:21:00 +0000

Wow, there is so much to read in these posts today! I just want to add that I am currently in a job I enjoy very much, making a pretty decent living, but I got here by throwing caution to the wind, leaving my job and my house and moving across country to San Diego with no job and no prospects. It was scary and hard and somehow it has turned out to be the best thing I ever did. I dragged two kids, one dog, and one cat with me, and the kids agree that our lives are better for taking the risk. That was 14 years ago. My two cents.

By: Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:19:00 +0000

Larry: We can just get our coffee from Alterra (in Milwaukee), unless there’s someone out there who enjoys getting transdermal highs from doing their own roasting. And my pastry isn’t flaky yet, though it IS buttery (how could it be anything else, given the amount of butter we’re using?)

Theresa, I wish I could give you my current boss (or my last one, for that matter). My current boss has been extremely supportive of my going half time so I can pursue a completely different career path, and he completely gets how wrong I am for what my job should be long-term. (Basically, it would involve managing paper, at which I suck and which bores me to tears.) We’ve been able to avoid crushing boredom mostly because we’re very small and everyone has to do a million different tasks, which is the kind of environment in which I thrive. Anyway, I’m sorry it worked out that way for you.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:05:00 +0000

Goldie – In our commune, I’d be glad to milk the cows and churn the butter, as long as you’d make the buttery, flaky pastries every morning. Is there a coffee roaster who’d like to join us?

By: theresa

theresa — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:35:00 +0000

Yes, I suppose you are right. But, in my same heart, I have a very active imagination. I naively imagined that it was possible for one person to be creative and thoughtful about solving complicated, long-term problems.

Silly fussy-headed, idealistic me.

Maybe I should have come to the meeting with cookies.

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:39:00 +0000

Theresa – In your heart, you knew what would happen, didn’t you?

By: theresa

theresa — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:32:00 +0000

That was a waste of time! I got the royal brush-off … and I had the nerve to push it even when I knew it was all over.

Larry, you were right. He was flummoxed to the point of fidgeting with his cuffs and flipping through his calendar over and over again.

Now he’ll feel awkward every time he sees me because he knows that I know he’s one of them. Time for me to get a new job. Crap! What a drag.