JUST THINKING...

MY academic background is Graphic Design. I come across people asking me, "John, what are you doing in the newspaper line?" That made me pause a bit and ponder. How can I explain? Or do I need to explain... I mean can I just let my performance do the explanation? I have been hoping that would happen; but so far, with doubting questions keep cropping up now and then, I think I need to be more pro-active again than I am now. I felt like "I've done that, been there" kind of attitude but now it is time again to do a bit of explanation... if you like to call it that.

I mean by gosh, I had a university education and I didn't just study "Graphic Design". As a media person now, suffice to say that I went through a hell of basic English courses that I felt I should have gotten a minor in English to justify my full-time career as a sub-editor currently for the past 11 years!

Anyway, the oft mind-boggling "what a waste of your Graphic Design degree" keeps coming. It seems that some people can never ever relate a person who studied graphic design to be working as a sub-editor. Er, that's purely logical thinking to me but we also need some intangible thoughts peppered to that equation. And thus, as a result, I Googled and found this link below.

This person is also a graphic designer (albeit a more experienced one than I) and she WRITES! So, that pacifies me a bit; that gives me a little bit of comfort as I think I am still kinda struggle with this puzzle of "what am I doing?" and "what direction am I headed?" Scary, isn't it when at 41 you are still struggling to provide a convincing answer to those questions.

Here meet Sue Campbell.

Sue Campbell has been a: roller skater, frosty-rootbeer mug-washer, tomboy, graphic designer, mom, wife, writer, younger, goatherd, domestic diva, world traveler, avid reader, birder, photographer, cheesemaker, poet, pauper, princess, queen?

She writes about design, books, art, writing, & life... and here is the link to her blog:

http://www.suecampbellgraphicdesign.com/?page_id=90

I know I won't be Bill Gates or Robert Kuok, or Tony Fernandes, but hopefully with clearer objectives in the area of my career and even life per se, I can make a more decent living financially. Not only this a responsibility of a husband, it is indeed a basic need of a human. The Apostle Paul was a tentmaker who earned a decent income to support his Christian works and travels. He could have depended on other people but he didn't want to trouble them. He did however accepted some help from others but he kept his tentmaking job. With thoughts along this line, I too want to keep a job that provides me a decent financial income and yet allows me to preach God's words and organise mission works, and at the same time provides me the freedom to visit places and people around the world at my own leisure. I am sure that ain't wrong, is it?