How does one find a job as a Nerd? Somewhere, somehow employment always comes back to efficiency, submission and just plain making a dollar. On the other hand I love going to Uni - even as I walk into the place I feel better. I feel as if the pressure to conform, to submit, to be profitable has lifted, and I can be myself. Wouldn't it be great to have a job where one felt like that! Good luck to Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates for being nerdy and being successful, too.
Unfortunately, my thing isn't computers. I mean obviously I have a bit to do with them, but a computer geek I am not. My thing is German language, and language generally. A cryptic crossword? Bring it on! Reading Der Spiegel-Online and learning the words I don't recognise? I'm up for it! But at work (an engineering job) I'm so unpopular (and I feel like a square peg . . .) because I just want to think about things and can't get enthusiastic about producing . . .
Yes, I know. Lazy. But it's not exactly that. I try hard (off and on) but no matter how hard I try I never do what's wanted. Just not the right type.
Wouldn't it be great if I had the same feeling of fun exploring in my job as I do in my Oxford-Duden? Is there such a job, or is a job by very definition a grind? I get so mad when I hear people say "I love my job!" Anyone else out there feel the same? Somehow "love" and "job" don't belong in the same sentence.
But maybe I'm wrong. I'm looking in the on-line ads, and even in the Uni employment website, hoping that maybe there is job out there that I could "love". Possible? I don't know.
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