Ok, so here’s the deal, folks. My name is Ben Fischer (most of you reading these first posts will assuredly already know that), I'm a very average 24 year old guy and I’m going to type some words into this machine regarding things that I like and thoughts that I have. When reading this please keep in my mind that my brain is only reasonably evolved and things like punctuation and sentence structure have, for the most part, escaped my grasp to this point in my life. So, here's my first post and let’s just hope it doesn’t suck.
I’ve recently become more and more aware that the 9-5 hump busting that so many people do may not be for me. So at this point in my life I’m trying to find that one thing I’m good at that will allow me to be generally successful in life without really having to answer to anyone. What’s that? That’s what we all want? There’s roughly seventy bajillion other people who are trying to do the same thing? Really? Since when? Well here’s what I say to that: uh oh.
I’m 24 years old and I’m ahead of the game when it comes to finances. Due to my mom passing when I was in high school I got through college with no loans and was able to pay off my childhood home. So no student loans + limited living costs = good start. So all I have to do now is to find out what I want to spend the next 40 years of my life doing. Easy right? Wrong. I have a Political Science degree from Illinois State University, which was the culmination of what, may be the most awesome four consecutive years of life I’ll have. The only problem is I don’t really like or care about Politics or Science. Sure, I’ll read the occasional article on education policies and get swept up in elections, but a lot of people do that and I certainly don’t want to do that for a living. So you’re probably asking if not that, then what?
Well, all my life there have been a couple constants television and sports. I’m an only child so a lot of my time spent growing up was watching TV, playing sports and watching sports being played on TV. So certainly I feel qualified to work in either of those industries especially at a place that crosses both mediums *cough* ESPN *cough*. There’s one little sticking point though. They definitely don’t think I’m qualified. Oh, and there’s thousands of other 24 year old TV/sports junkies out there who want to work for ESPN or in sports or in TV just like me. Crap! Also, how the heck does someone get started at ESPN? Move to Bristol and offer to take Scott Van Pelt’s suits to the dry cleaners? Probably not, I’d probably just be arrested for stalking or drawn and quartered in ESPN’s scary basement lair. (They have to have a scary basement lair, right?) I’ve filled out a couple applications and have wrote, what I think, are great cover letters expressing my interest and passion in working for them, but something tells me that won’t be enough.
So, maybe I won’t get to work at ESPN. And in all honesty, I think I’m ok with that. People don’t always get exactly what they want and sometimes an alternative turns out to be better. Maybe I’m meant to be an entrepreneur, or a teacher, or heck, maybe I am supposed to go into politics in some form. One thing I do know is I better enjoy what I’m do for work every day, because if I don’t life might start to suck a little.
-Ben
So there’s my very first post, it’s short and kind of complainy, but it is what it is. I promise all the posts won’t be this depressing. If they were I’d probably shove a letter opener into my eye at some point just so I wouldn’t have to proof read them anymore. Oh, that’s right, I don’t proof read.
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