A New Thread

Commenting on my previous post The Dream or the Dough, Lee (who is one of my five brothers-in-law, for anyone who doesn’t know) asked what “the dream” is for me.

I think my previous post was more of a philosophical wondering. I have very few requirements in life. I’ve already acquired a family of rabbits who I enjoy and I have Steve who is, well, awesome. I am very much enjoying married life. I feel I’ve achieved what I want in my personal life at this point. Someday I’d love to have a house, but I recognize that the time isn’t now and I don’t think it weighs much on my overall happiness.

From my career… I fully understand that it’s highly unlikely that I will find a job that causes me to spring out of bed in the morning, but I would settle for a lack of dread. I think the thing I most dread is any kind of stress. There’s a laid-back, aloha spirited person down deep inside and I just hate stress of any kind. I don’t like deadlines or dealing with obnoxious clients/customers. I don’t care much for workplace responsibility. I love routine and the familiar. All that being said, I would probably be a great general ledger accountant somewhere or something along those lines. Unfortunately, if you don’t want responsibility and, essentially, don’t want to think, you can’t make the big bucks. I guess the dream for me would be to somehow figure out how to be able to afford to work as a part-time low-level accountant somewhere. I think being a part-time bum would agree with me because the more I think about it, the more I realize that I will most likely have better luck finding intellectual and creative fulfillment outside the workplace than in it.