Resume schmesume

Trip Start May 18, 2008
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Trip End Jun 16, 2008


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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

i couldn't tell you a single thing about my dreams for the future and that terrified me into doing the easy thing: resume building. starting at the age of four. i have to admit, my resume IS pretty awesome. harvard, juilliard, oxford, carnegie hall (thrice), corporate jobs at abercrombie & fitch, j.crew, calvin klein. socially, i was also feeling quiet fabulous. besides work getting in the way of my social schedule, i was a newly minted rockstar for a band covered in indie blogs as "potentially one of the finest bands to emerge so far this century," by the new york times, by new york magazine and by mick jones himself. oh wait, does that sounds like another resume line?

JS told me, how will they ever make a movie about you if you just work at calvin klein? truth. i quit my job a week later. JS, a dear friend of mine, shares the pedestal with JSM (John Stuart Mill). While at Harvard, Mill "suffered a breakdown; already one of the most brilliant polemicists in England, he couldn't say anymore what the point of it was. As he later wrote, 'the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.'"1

though not brilliant, this is precisely where i was. how could one have everything, and yet, nothing at all?

over the next indefinite period of time i will be traipsing around the world, getting into situations that will undoubtedly be literary worthy. but most liberating for one who has had a life plan even before starting kindgergarten, is finally not having a plan at all.


1 - Gessen, Keith, "Admission Impossible," New York Times, 16 March 2008.
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