RE: The Future of Teenage Blogs

I came across Rich's segment http://richohanian.wordpress.com/on teenage blogging and I have to agree with what he wrote and with the sources he quoted (to an extent). It is true that anything posted on the web will forever be held over your head. Instead of people pulling out yearbooks to mock your Senior picture they can now print out your blog on everything and anything you had expressed. It can and will be embarrassing if people are not careful with what they post.

We all want to feel that what we say will be private and that it will not be thrown back at us in the future during a campaign or when some of us become famous or what ever it may be. We want a place to express our feelings and thoughts but we need to know that it is available for everyone to see, Rich had talked about the privacy settings on certain sites such as Facebook, and I think everyone should set their profiles to private if they are concerned with what might come back to them. I think that when blogging or having profiles (ie. MySpace, Facebook, Friendster) one has to realize that they have to use good judgement on what they post. I personally have may profiles set to private just because I post for my friends not complete strangers that have no involvement in my life.

It is funny how technology has changed the way most of us communicate these days. We can all admit to the fact that we use all these profiles and blogging as a substitute for calling our close friends. We leave comments or post blogs about what is happening in our lives and it is more efficient then calling all 200 or so friends listed on our sites. In the end what we post like what we say can not be taken back, but the only difference is what we post can be printed.

Its the death of fear

I was browsing past blog entries from Sam Decker at http://decker.typepad.com/welcome/life/index.html and he was describing how sometimes fear can get the best of us. He explained how his father always quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain." It was a reminder that fear can hold us back in life. It can stop us from taking a risk and venturing outside our comfort zone. I personally know that if I had let fear get the best of me I would have never been able to accomplish as much as I have thus far.

I like Emerson's quote for the simply fact that it is true. If we do what we fear then it can only rid the fear of it, and it will build confidence that we overcame what we feared.

Career Path

Being that I will be graduating in less then 3 months it is definitely a good time to start thinking about the future. In doing so I really feel that my path is still up in the air. I would like to have a job post graduation in either marketing or finance. But I can not seem to narrow which field I want to get into. I am a Marketing Major but have financial experience which leads me to be heavily recruited by financial companies. Either way I would like a position that I can enjoy and have room for promotion. I know I will have to start at the bottom, I guess I will choose which field to go into base on the appeal. Within a year I plan on moving into Manhattan, developing my career in either field, and just enjoy what I think will be the beginning a my life.

In five years I would like to have received my MBA in possibly Retailing as I suddenly developed an interest into it or in an area that will at least further my career. I am very career oriented and I hope that I can manage a balance by this point. Five years I see myself having moved up in my position and continuing to grow in my education.

As in ten years, that is a little difficult for me because I am used to just thinking of my life in shorter time frames such as a month from now or a year but ten is a stretch. What I would like by ten years is to have found a job that I can actually say I enjoy and have a strong passion for. I want to be happy of the choices I have made by this mark and not be a the top and dread every moment of it.