Blog 1- No Chance in Hell

If you have read my previous blog, you would know that I am on a quest to figure my career out.Yes,it is not the brightest things to do, at least not when I am doing my masters. I should know where I am headed, right?Wrong, I am going to turn 22, with no job prospective/interest, unhappy, average, higher education?(I think not!) . I was one of those people who always knew what I wanted to be. Well, I am obviously wrong because, I've been  figuring  my career out since I was ...ummm...10?!I will get back to my fabulous choices for my future between 10 to 15, a little later.

 Now,  going back a bit to the time when I was 15:
 I turned 15, I thought to myself, "You have nothing to worry about, you have ECONOMICS!That's IT. It's your "calling".Duh!Economics is in your genes, after all. Appa(dad) graduated doing  Economics, Amma(mom) too, it's in your DNA"  What I didn't know was, The Sureshs were never into Mathematics, and never will be.Boy, How I wish I could go tell that 15 year old me to think faster, think better, think smarter. Well...*SIGH*
Okay, I am not going to complain, I have a destiny too right??!I better have one!

Going way back to the time when I was 10 to 15; It is a good age to be, I loved being 10!I had my whole life ahead of me, all I had to worry was, if my auto came on time, if my friends would play with me, if I would be home on time to watch my cartoons/WWE, fun stuff like that. And,this was around  the time when I got super interested in Sports.All I wanted was  to be a cricketer/Basket Ball player(What was I thinking?!), be one of the guys,play sports, none of it happened because, I was obese, and I was addicted to Television.
Arts was never my thing, I could not draw a  picture of a star to save my life, let alone paint something.The horrid "art" work,origami stuff,and those cardboard projects*shivers*.I bet my art teacher had to get me through to the Sixth grade,and not flunk me because of arts.Given a choice, she would not have out me through to the Sixth grade*giggle*
So now that we have established that, I was not the what you call the "artsy-fartsy" kinds,you would think,I was a geek.No!Such awesome things never happen to me!I was never  a "bright" student .It took a lot from me to just wake up and go to school,I was  bribed  with food.*gulp* Yes, Appa used to bribe me in food to make me pass a year in school or just to get me to  finish my homework.Not Proud.By the time I turned 15,  I wanted to be a scientist. Einstein was my hero, and I just wanted to be just like him.(Also, this was one of my many WTF? moments!)  And, I flunked chemistry, I could not freakin'  balance an equation that is of very high importance(I would never know why-it is beyond me,call me ignorant, but that just does not make any sense to me!) organic chemistry?!What's the deal with that?Gosh, it gave me day-mares! So, I said a  kiss-goodbye to my Einstein dreams, IIT dreams and I had to throw my Noble Prize Award winning speech. A Grammy,maybe?*sigh* N-O. My singing voice is so bad that my music teacher has nothing to say!


My career choices from 15-20 is in my next blog because, it has a lot of so-so options, I got a little ambitious with my dreams when I was in my mid-teens. Anywho,coming back to the Present; I can categorize my list of things I can never be .
No Chance In Hell list:
#Athlete
#Scientist. Science in any kind,shape or form is not my thing!
#Artist .
#Singer( I still have my Grammy Award winning speech in my mind though.. hehehe)
# Academia .Obviously(!)
#Modeling. Acting on the other hand, quite possible, you know, me being a drama queen and all?*wink*
If you have figured out what you want to be? Good for you cause, I am jealous. There, I said it. :l

What did you want to be when you were 10?Are you living your dream?

what NOT to be...

I am going through this phase where am figuring out what I could possibly turn out to be. since I have such an awesome lifestyle planned out, I need to work, given a choice , I would love to do nothing, but life is not that kind, is it?So my new project for awesome Shobi is, "Find a Career.ASAP"
Also, it so happened when I was reading  Betty & Veronica, Betty was looking for a summer job, trying to weigh her options out and figure out what she wants to do this summer.It got me thinking, I should be doing the same, you know, weigh my options out and see where I could possibly belong, I figured, I will make  a list of what are the things I can never be good at, and weigh it against the things I could possibly end up doing. If i had a shrink , I think the first thing he/she would probably tell me is, its a pessimistic way of looking at things  and blah, why a psychiatrist, even  my dad would lecture me about my "approach" to finding a career. I've found out a cool new approach ,it's so cool that I think  it's revolutionary. There are three ways to look at my could/would be career options:
1. Totally Possible.
2. So-So
3. No chance in hell.
 It's not what you call "regular", but am bored of regular anyway. I hope to figure out something soon, and am going to go from No chance in hell to Totally possible, striking out all the not possibles  to the standing winner(s), which in this case would be my career.Smart, eh?! By the end of the three blogs, I would end up with a super career, and my first three part series blog. So,It's a win-win situation, I have nothing to complain about, I get to have my cake and eat it too.Lalalalalala

Lessons learnt

The best lessons in life are taught to you during the hard times, there is no choice in the matter. And the silver lining in a tough situation is not the solution to the problem, but what you learn from it. The last few months have been a little tough on my family, and the silver lining is the lessons I am learning from it.

· To each his own

· Unsolicited advice is the name of the game. So, deal with it!

· People have better things to do than listen to somebody complain. So stop complaining.

· Do NOT justify. Nobody cares.

· It is OK to cry.

· Sleep is the best cure. You have to face the music either way.

· Ignorance is not always bliss. Be well informed.

· I hate saying it, but hard work always pays.

· What goes around, comes around (I know it’s JT’s song, but it’s true. Karma is no joke)

· When times are trying, love yourself more.

· There is nothing to lose, so don’t stop trying.

· So many problems will be solved, if only people stopped talking and just listened.

· It’s easier if you stopped caring about what the other person thinks. What they think of you, is none of your business.

· JUNK FOOD, good (: D)

· Time well spent, is the time spent with yourself.

· Retail therapy helps J

· Expectations are disappointments, but hope on the other hand is a very very good thing

· Do not apologise for who you are.

· People come and go, but family is forever.

· Parents are always right. In my case, my sister is freaking right all the time (: D)

· Pets are the best listeners in the world. They love you, anyway.

· Nothing lasts forever, the good, the bad and the ugly. It will pass.

So, if you’re out there facing a problem, try finding the silver lining. Because, you have nothing ,but the best lessons to learn.