Journeyman

[drydem]

I am sick of being a Journeyman. I am so ready to be a Master, but every village in which I try to set up shop can't afford to keep one. I feel stretched, overworn, aimless. I have energy and crave direction. I have skill and crave material. I have vocation. I am sick of constant crisis. I wonder if this is a generational doom or simply a personal phase. I want something that is what I am, not what I do.
I feel old. Old and tired.

Comments

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Generational Doom.

[wadam.livejournal.com]

I feel much the same way. For a long time, I thought the opposite: I want to do something that is just what I do, not who I am. Then I became an adjunct. Screw this. I know who I am and what I want and this is not it.

As to personal or generational: I think both. Though maybe ts an academic thing too. I don't know anybody who is finished or finishing a degree in the liberal arts who is not itinerant and unhappy about that fact.

[squishymeister.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

We miss you here Ben. And you aren't old! Just a poor sap trying to get started when the world is in a shit hole.