Yesterday, fourteen people were severely wounded by a knife-wielding maniac on a Texas college campus during a job fair. Twenty year old Dylan Quick, admitted to police after his capture that he'd always fantasized about stabbing people, and that he'd planned this attack for quite some time. Two of the victims were still in critical condition. LINK to the original story on CNN.
Obviously, this country needs to immediately enact "knife control legislation"! For far too long, citizens of the United States have had far too easy access to knives. Hunting knives, kitchen knives, utility blades like those used by terrorists on 9/11 even! Yet nothing is being done to make sure that knives are kept out of the hands of criminals.
A quick search of Youtube even yields a scarier fact. There are literally thousands of videos on the site showing people how to make their own knives, and even swords! How can we let this continue when we let the violence rage in our streets and in our homes! Strict knife control laws need to be enacted before even one more citizen falls victim to another senseless knife attack. After the Newton attack many in this country have advocated for strict gun control laws, even the banning of gun ownership completely. How many innocent lives have to be taken before our government takes the threat of knives seriously? No one will be safe as long as you can buy a set of Ginsu knives from your local Walmart!
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
I HAD AN EPIPHANY TODAY...
I've heard of people having epiphanies, but as far as I know, I've never had one, until today that is. I've been unemployed since last December and I've just started my fall term in community college. I'm only 3 weeks in, but of course in this hectic world we live in today, it's already time to start registering for Spring classes. I've declared a major of "Design Technology". Now, there are several career paths available in this major, when I first happened upon it, I was leaning towards the one they termed, "computer graphics". As time went on though and I actually registered for classes I'd talked myself into trying to pursue a degree that would lead me into either mechanical drafting or civil engineering, both a far cry from computer graphics.
So far, I'd been doing fine in my classes but I started seeing a recurring theme when it came to the areas I'd decided I would pursue, they're very math heavy! Now, I'm not that great at math, but more importantly, I don't really enjoy math. Everything I'm hearing about people that go into the engineering/draftsman fields is that they invariably enjoy math. I don't. So I decided that I would go back to pursuing the computer graphics path in my major, so I went in to speak with my adviser about what classes I should sign up for in the Spring semester. She started off by giving me some bad news. My community college was no longer (starting next semester) be offering the computer graphics electives in Design Technology! Then she saved me by telling me that they were splitting that off from Design Technology into it's own major entitled "Visual Communication". So, while a couple of classes that I'm now taking won't count towards a degree in visual communication, I can still switch majors next semester and pursue what I want to. At this point she got up and asked me what it was I wanted to do as she retrieved some paperwork from a shelf. She asked me if I'd rather pursue a field of "Graphic design", "Web development" or "animation".
It was at this point that I had my epiphany, and it only lasted a split second but seemed to last long enough for me have a whole conversation with myself in my head! I thought to myself, "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but I know what I enjoy doing and that's what I want to study at school, and someday, I'll get a job of some sort allowing me to do what I love!" And only a half a second after she asked me that I shouted out, "Animation!" Even though the little niggling voice in the back of my head was saying "Graphic design and web development either one are a better choice, there are more and better paying jobs available for either of them!" But I didn't listen to that little voice that has shot me in the foot so many times over the years and stuck with what felt right.
Sometimes, you've just got to let go and do what feels right. I've worked for nearly 30 years at jobs that I've HAD TO DO. It's time now to do what I WANT TO DO!
So far, I'd been doing fine in my classes but I started seeing a recurring theme when it came to the areas I'd decided I would pursue, they're very math heavy! Now, I'm not that great at math, but more importantly, I don't really enjoy math. Everything I'm hearing about people that go into the engineering/draftsman fields is that they invariably enjoy math. I don't. So I decided that I would go back to pursuing the computer graphics path in my major, so I went in to speak with my adviser about what classes I should sign up for in the Spring semester. She started off by giving me some bad news. My community college was no longer (starting next semester) be offering the computer graphics electives in Design Technology! Then she saved me by telling me that they were splitting that off from Design Technology into it's own major entitled "Visual Communication". So, while a couple of classes that I'm now taking won't count towards a degree in visual communication, I can still switch majors next semester and pursue what I want to. At this point she got up and asked me what it was I wanted to do as she retrieved some paperwork from a shelf. She asked me if I'd rather pursue a field of "Graphic design", "Web development" or "animation".
It was at this point that I had my epiphany, and it only lasted a split second but seemed to last long enough for me have a whole conversation with myself in my head! I thought to myself, "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but I know what I enjoy doing and that's what I want to study at school, and someday, I'll get a job of some sort allowing me to do what I love!" And only a half a second after she asked me that I shouted out, "Animation!" Even though the little niggling voice in the back of my head was saying "Graphic design and web development either one are a better choice, there are more and better paying jobs available for either of them!" But I didn't listen to that little voice that has shot me in the foot so many times over the years and stuck with what felt right.
Sometimes, you've just got to let go and do what feels right. I've worked for nearly 30 years at jobs that I've HAD TO DO. It's time now to do what I WANT TO DO!
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