Next Year's Career

“What are you going to do when the trip is over?” That is the million dollar question. It is the question that I cannot get away from. Everyone continues to ask and I understand. But the more they ask the more I’m forced to think about it, the more ideas I get, and the more confused I get! What am I going to do! Hmmm… I’ve got a few ideas. There are a couple songs I think of. One is the new song “World” by Five For Fighting where it says “History starts now.” I’m always kind of thinking about that being a work-a-holic trying to figure out what I can do. I also think about the classic song “Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen,” which I listen to all the time for inspiration, Mary Schmich wrote an amazing speech. I always think of the line, “Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.” That’s me in a nutshell, my parents can attest to that. But I suppose the problem is a little different, it’s not knowing what I want to do, it’s just picking one of the hundreds of things I would love to do. Here they are some of them in no particular order. Have you got any suggestions for me?

– Get a PhD in advertising and be a professor at MSU
– Be a professional at hanging out with people in the world
– Continue what I’m doing
– Work in the snowboard industry
– Write a book, or two, or three, or four
– Come up with my next endurance traveling ideas
– Start a magazine
– Create more websites
– Be a professional photographer
– Be a creative consultant
– Continue to merge sociology, advertising, photography, web design, photography, and travel into everything I do
– Create a creative and eclectic team of people to work on different independent projects
– Move to Colorado and be a snowboard bum while I write a book and bag groceries in some ski town like Breckenridge
– Do this same project within the snowboard and/or skateboard industry
– Do this same project within college life
– Find ways to merge corporations with different projects
– Start a scholarship to send kids to college
– Continue to document as much as possible of my own life and as many others as possible
– To be the “Creative Paradox” of my own domain

P.S. Mom and dad, I know you’re reading this, and just to give you a fair warning that I have a lot of the details worked out in my head for most of this stuff.

P.P.S. If you could pick just one of these to be a partner with me which one would it be and why? Now accepting applications.