
Career day haiku
photo by C. AndersonDear Haikusue:
Everyone in my family graduated from high school, went on to college, went to Graduate school and then settled in to a well paid white collar career, and I am expected to do the same. But as I start my senior year in college I know there is no way I will ever be happy being stuck behind a desk and working 80 hours a week on a computer. I want adventure, and I have the chance to spend a year sailing around the world as a deck hand on a racing yacht, which I want to do more than anything else. But my family does not approve. Every time I bring the idea up I am subjected to lectures about how bad the economy is, and how if I don't "buckle down" I will be homeless living under a freeway within 5 years. How do I get them off my back?
Signed,
Sailing Away in Salinas
Dear Sailing:
Charting your own course
some compassion required
forgive, then sail on