{"id":1155,"date":"2011-10-12T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riseupbuffalo.com\/wordpress\/?p=67"},"modified":"2017-07-02T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T18:06:21","slug":"is-this-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Is This A Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I wonder if my current state is merely a dream and that someday soon I will wake up to a different reality. I will still have the same apartment and the same significant other, but I will be doing something else (something better and more important) with my life. On that day I will rise in the morning, be happy to get out of bed and go to my wonderful job, teaching the future leaders of the world. Until that day, I am living in a haze of good intentions. Until that day, I am applying to PhD programs and attempting to make something of myself. Until that day, I will continue to be a low level employee, working my butt off for very little money, induring great heaping piles of micro-management.<\/p>\n

As you may or may not know, I dislike my job. Mostly because it feels like I have taken several steps backward to get to it. At any given time in my past you could have found me managing IT projects for a small community based bank, doing the barista thing, or stocking the shelves at the college bookstore. For a short time I did a stint as a teller, hoping it would evolve into something more. It did not. The only solution is to take a different path. Customer service has been at the root of nearly every job I have had in my life. This has to change. I have finally figured it out. I do not enjoy waiting on people!<\/p>\n

So – working from that realization will get me beyond this simple, but tedious and aggravating job set. Moving toward being a professor, working on web design and development as a freelancer, writing articles for hyperlocal media and journals. These are career paths that will lead to somewhere better. Somewhere challenging and fun and not so staunchly conservative or sales based. My dream will come true someday, only this dream will include a classroom and office hours, not a knight in shining armour.<\/p>\n

Peace,
\nChantale (aka hippiegrrl)<\/p>\n

What I’m reading now:
\nBook: The Second Sex<\/a> by Simone de Beauvoir
\nMagazine: Ms.<\/a>
\nOnline article: The Only Child: Not a Loner?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I wonder if my current state is merely a dream and that someday soon I will wake up to a different reality. I will still have the same apartment and the same significant other, but I will be doing something else (something better and more important) with my life. On that day I will … <\/p>\n

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