Blahginess

I’ve been reading lots of other blogs lately, and surfing through various links others have published on their blogs. I thought maybe I would start mentioning a few things I found interesting and linking to them here. This brilliant thought came to me as I was in the middle of reading one man’s view on why college is a waste of time. I especially like this bit:

Most courses of study, even the ones that are very close to being purely vocational training, are preparing students for a career that will keep them indoors and sedentary, for jobs that are intellectual but only in the most ordinary and hum-drum sense of the word and thinking is mostly a matter of following instructions or collecting and organizing data, for jobs that will require them to use their hands only for keyboarding, manipulating a mouse, and checking off items on lists.

What used to be called with good reason white collar jobs.

What are now usually self-flatteringly self-designated “professional” jobs.

 I know a lot of people that have jobs like that, and my last job was similar, although anyone would be hard-pressed to point out how it was professional, with or without the quotes.

Reading through a few blogs published by writers who talk about the writing life, their books and the interconnected network of writers has me feeling envious and wishing I could be a writer. Sure, sometimes they sound pretentious, and there seems to be much literary cock-blocking (I really wanted to use that phrase), but it seems like a cool community. I read something about it here.

Maybe I will write more later when I don’t feel so dull…