JayBee said...
Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but you should not look to develop your career around going windsurfing (unless you want to be a pro windsurfer). You should develop a career around what you want to do for a career. What happens if you break your ankle and cannot windsurf anymore?
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There are plenty of jobs which would enable you to spend plenty of time on the water. Decide what career you want first, they find the appropriate job.
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Agreed, or look at it another way. I've moved to IT contracting which pays about 3x what I earned working a full-time job. And if I hadn't become accustomed to the lifestyle...
Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a ****ing big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future.
Yeah, couldn't help myself there. Cheers Mr Welsh. BTW if you like Trainspotting check out Acid House, and read the ****ing books damn it.
... where was I? Oh yeah. So if I hadn't become accustomed to the lifestyle, family, mortgage et al I could take 8 months/year off. Or, as I was thinking on the way home tonight, if I had started earlier, like 8 years earlier, and invested wisely, I could windsurf every day for the rest of my life now, very comfortably. Bugger.
