ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

Today was my first day as a college graduate, and the revelation of this new freedom makes me feel as though I’m embarking on a totally fresh and different life. In the last few months before graduation I started making a short list of things I wanted to do when I had the time and freedom of those without scholastic obligations. It’s not that the years I’ve spent in school have been a waste, but I haven’t had much liberty for pointless endeavors, or for endeavors at all, for that matter.

If years of exposure to books, television, and film have taught me anything, an appalling number of people spend their lives doing things they hate, things they don’t care about, or nothing much at all. Since it’s possible I will die at some point, or at least live to where I might regret things, I’m going to take steps to avoid all that. So I’m going to build my list and work on it as I go, keeping track along the way. It seems like an easier alternative to the new scrapbooking fad that has, according to that craft store Michael’s, Swept! the! Nation!, and it’ll make me feel like I’m doing something meaningful if it turns out that my chosen field of accounting is totally boring or something.

At least it’d be a boring profession with the potential to make money to fund my list!