My degree: To edit or not to edit
I’ve changed my major… let’s see… 1,2… 4 times so far.
Psychology – I finally realized that while I’m good at analyzing behavior and so forth, I’d just be awful at helping people with their problems. I simply don’t care about them.
Journalism – Too many rules. Writing is fun but there’s so much bullshit you have to sift through that it’s just not worth it and in the end you get to express little-to-no creativity for your efforts.
Cullinary Arts – No.
Law Enforcement – I’m not really sure what I was thinking here. It’s entirely possible that I came to this decision after playing Rainbow 6: Vegas or something. How’s that for bullshit psychology? 
And finally, my current focus: Video editing. So far, out of all my choices, this seems to fit the best. It’s always been apparent that I should be doing something with computers but I sucked at programming, was awesome at web design but they get paid in peanuts, have a small bit of artistic talent but not enough for current gen gaming or animation, and nearly pull my hair out every time I handle networking. Editing though has brought a new opportunity to my eyes. I get to use a computer for my job almost exclusively, average salary is over 60k, my creativity is exercised and I would get to freaking make movies. I mean, come on. Who doesn’t dream of making movies?
O.K. so, because I’m bored, I’m going to make a pro/con list:
Pro’s:
- Good pay
- Fun
- Computer oriented
- I get to make movies!
- Past experience with video editing has been satisfactory
- Useful knowledge outside of a work environment as well
- I get to know famous actors and directors and producers and such
- etc.
Con’s:
- Expenses:
- My Macbook will cost around 2 thousand bucks which I’ve got to buy within the next few months.
- My video editing software will be another 1500 to 2500 dollars depending on what I get
- I’ve become so bored with the idea of a career and bored with my current job that how do I know I’m not just accepting the first slightly interesting path that comes along recently? It’s not like some light has just popped on in my head thinking, “Brilliant! Video editing! Why didn’t I think of this before?!” I honestly don’t believe that there’s a job out there that would be a perfect match for me, so… maybe this is as close as I get?
- I’m a whiny bitch, I know. I’m hardly the only one with occupational woes, this career will make good money and open great opportunities for me. Which is why I’m doing it. Hopefully this one works out.
Compared to what?
So, in my film class I have of course been getting perfect scores on my papers. Rightly so, considering they’re brilliantly written with insight likely rivalling that of the creators of the films themselves. I speak like this because this entire post is going to be about my wounded ego.
Today, we picked up the latest of our graded papers and seeing that my friend also got 10/10 on her papers I asked if I could read through them. Taking it from her I immediately find around four grammatical errors. In the first paragraph. The spelling was off, grammar was horrendous and even some proper punctuation was missing! As for the paper itself, the ideas were flimsy and likely only correct in their analysis because I had earlier told her exactly what we were supposed to write about.
Now don’t get me wrong, this girl is my friend and co-worker but she’s a dolt. Straight through. So when these shameful papers manage to get the same score as me -albeit the highest score- I feel distinctly offended. I would have given it a 6… if I were feeling generous. IT’S A COLLEGE COURSE FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Stop coddling the idiots, America. They deserve what they get and if you give them college degrees out of pure pity you’re going to end up with those same idiots at the top of our work force; and we all know how that turns out. Bush.
