I don't know half of you half as well as I should like;
and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
A few days ago I sat on a picnic table at camp and thought back on years past and the effect they've had on myself and those around me. I looked and saw campers that didn't recognize me, a camp that had changed such that I didn't recognize some of it, yet in the end I think it was really me that changed. I grew up, I moved on, and camp just kept on doing what it had always done and hopefully what it always will.
Never has this been more evident to me than this past weekend. Sure I had returned to camp before, my thoughts have been brought back to camp many times before, but never have I really noticed how much I've changed. This weekend was more meaningful than any other because of what had taken place in the preceding week. Monday of course I grew a year older, but more significantly I took the next step toward the rest of my life.
Wednesday afternoon I perused through dozens of company displays at a RIT career fair and applied for quite a few positions. I was given four interviews over the span of the next two days and they all went absolutely splendidly, including a job offer from one company on Friday morning after being absolutely grilled in my computer knowledge. I have since received several promising e-mails from companies and it looks like I'm in store for a few more job offers before a final decision is made and its both exciting and daunting. In a few weeks I will be traveling to Fort Lauderdale Florida to be wined and dined by the employer that offered me the job.
Will I take it? Maybe. Time will tell and I'm excited about all the possibilities but one thing is for sure I won't be the same anymore. I'm going to be off working for an employer full-time, with a family, going through life and there will be no going back to the free spirited days of college life. At the same time I can't help but be relieved that college life is over. Sure I'll have lots of work to do in the 'real world' but I welcome that compared to constantly having to do contrived examples to prove to a professor some measure of true knowledge. There will be no going back to those days of camp, or these days as a worry free student though and that is a change for sure, and one we must all make it is just an interesting thing to be the first one in my circle of friends to be making the change and perhaps leaving them all behind. The right position for me is out there - now its just a matter of having the discernment to find it and to see it when its before me.
I can, in no way, support any decision of yours to take a job more than 20 miles outside of Rochester.
:P
Naw... I'm just kidding. I'll support you, I'll just have to not like you anymore.
wow, Dan, that sure is harsh... X.x
Anyways, good luck to you as you begin this new era of life! I'm sure you'll do just fine now that the bulk of your training is behind you! I'll be praying that God will bless you with the discernment you need. :)
It has been a long time. I wish I had known that so many ppl were going to be at camp last weekend. Life has been so hectic I really needed a weekend to just relax. Had I know so many would have been there I would have made more of an effort. Hope things are going well with you. Sounds like a lot of upcoming decisions. Oh, and I think I won't mention anything to him about you. Funny how we grow and change over the years isn't it? That conversation seems a life time ago...still, I think I'll leave your name out of any conversations =D
take the job in FL man!
Hey, it was great to see you grace camp with your presence this past weekend. :-p But, seriously, I do hope everything goes well with the choosing of a job. Enjoy the few last days of the carefree, but enjoy the prospect of a new chapter in life. Good luck with it all.
btw...excluding a few innocent bushes and small plants, I didn't hit anything with my car...yet...:-D
NOOOOO HT....
You make me feel old man. We aren't old yet. We still have so much ahead of us. :( It is a bitter sweet thing leaving old stuff that you love. I am excited for you about what lies ahead for you and Sugar. And..I am going to miss you terribly if I don't ever get to see you. I remember those late night talks out on your picnic table. I really respect you HT.
Wow . . . we're all getting so old. People getting married, getting carreers, moving all over the place . . . the "good old days" are long gone, I'm afraid. I suppose we'll just have to make good new days.
HEY tom!.. i was just thinking about you and sugar the other day. i dont really have time to read your post. im about to leave to go to brazil.
just wanted to ask. when are you coming to florida?.. where at?.. and what for?
maybe.. we will see eachother?
cya s.t.3
shanna
How crazy is the fact that we could all be leaving good ol' Rochester at the same time! I remember feeling those same things when I went back to Practical the first time....oh the fun I had as a college student and now I have 8 weeks til baby #3? It can be downright scary. I had no idea any of this would happen when I left college. However I will say it is great fun finding our what God has in store for you around the next corner..whether big or small it all fits into a bigger picture!
I've been feeling the same way lately... everyone has graduated or moved on to grad school, and undeniably life will never be the same again, ever, and that's a little disconcerting.
Nice to know someone else is having those thoughts too :-)