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I came across this blog entry today and found it to be an interesting read with a lot of good points. I thought it especially salient for me since I never finished college and have considered whether or not to finish my undergrad education. I do have an opportunity for tuition reimbursement now, so it’s a good time to act provided I can come up with enough scratch for tuition and books prior to being reimbursed. I just don’t know if I really want to.

I like learning. The thing is, I’ve become something of a renaissance man mostly through self study; the thought of specializing in just one thing fills me with dread that I’ll be locked into learning only that for an extended period of time. I’ve always just followed my interests as I come across them, and that’s led me down a winding road so far, through creative writing, music performance (on several instruments), music production, network administration, programming, graphic design, and photography.

I’m a very much a do-it-yourself kinda guy, which is how I end up learning so many different things; one interest naturually leads into another, and I just have to know all about how it’s done. At this point I could write my own music, record my own album, and design a dynamic website to promote it and also distribute the content. I could write my own book, set the type, design the bookjacket, and promote it with my design and computer savvy. With some more experience (and money), I could start a recording studio. I even have a backburner idea for opening a coffeeshop with a friend of mine that could potentially fulfill all of my interests.

So the learning part is no problem. My biggest stumbling block tends to be doing; I’ve learned all these wondeful things, but I haven’t really done too much with them beyond the dayjob, which tends to consume most of my energy by the end of the day. What I really need to do now is to sit down and actually create something so that I have some tangible accomplishments I can point to. Maybe college will fit in as a vehicle for learning the business end of creativity so I can make my interests my dayjob and continue creating things. Or else find a way to get paid for learning.

Food for thought.

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