DQDJ – Preface

Heh, so tonight I had this “great” idea for a new episodic blog section – DQDJ, or “Don’t Quit your Day Job”.

The statement applies to myself. In each post, I’ll cover another profession, different than my own, and why I sometimes have delusions that maybe I *could* do that job, but also why in the end they’re still primarily delusions.

Well, actually, maybe I really could do these jobs. In fact, I think most people could do most jobs… if they really wanted to. Not without training and experience, of course, in some cases a lot of training and experience, but still. Motivation and effort are great equalizers in human achievement. If someone really, really wants to do/be something, they can overcome a lot of otherwise insurmountable obstacles.

For myself, I’m very fortunate in that a great many potential external disadvantages aren’t really an issue. Thus, if I wanted to do/be something other than what I’m actually doing/being, the primary limiting factor is probably my own desire to change. Thus, any other career that I sorta think I could do (but actually realize I “can’t”) is totally an internal issue. My upcoming admission of self-characteristics that prevent me from pursing these as-yet-unnamed* alternative careers is more a confession of my perceived inability to change myself rather than a protest of limiting factors imposed upon me from an outside source.

* – I haven’t mentioned them because I haven’t actually decided what the list is going to be yet…

Anyhow, ya, I don’t really know what the point of these posts will be. It doesn’t really seem like it’ll be enjoyable to read…

Well, whatever, that’s my new idea. Sometimes I really do have these random thoughts about other jobs, where I can kinda half-visualize myself doing it, but it usually involves me having a modified personality, skill set, etc. (Like a pragmatic version of a superpowers dream…)

Oh, and this doesn’t mean I don’t like my current job, haha. I do like my job! That’s why I spent the past several years striving to be basically exactly where I am now. I say “basically exactly” because my plan was only detailed to a certain extent – where I am now is definitely within measurement error of the best I realistically expected I could be. Which might sound negative, but I mean that in a very complimentary way (to my job).

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