Apr
12
Captivating Work
Another week has gone by again. My 2nd week since I started work. At this moment, there’s lots of things to consider on all the possible paths for the future. Should I take the one with the degree? Or the other longer path of getting an degree with honors? Is it worth the effort? Or just another piece of paper to get that pay raise.
I’m not really concerned about the pay raise after getting the degree. I’m more into the things I get out of the degree: what I can learn or gain from it. One is more theory based, the longer one has research and management as an emphasis. Totally different areas to the same level of education.
Then somehow, my heart goes to storytelling using images. And radiography and photography are pretty much very different worlds on their own. Each has their own unique points. Radiography captivates on the diagnostic information from the image which a radiologist interprets from. Hence, the emphasis on accuracy and rigidity. Photography, on the other hand, has more freedom of expression and creativity in it. To me, they can’t be compared on the same scale.
If you have seen Sir Ken Robinson’s talk on creativity, I have to agreed whole-heartedly that the current education systems are accommodated to the industrialization of an economy. Maths, Science, Language are a requirement for most jobs we have in this era. Arts are being neglected. So it comes back to our past. Parents tell their children to study hard to get a good education to get a good job. Just follow the flow of the economy and crowd. So you can tell by now which did my parents told me to go. Honestly, I’m not as creative as I used to be when I was a child. Got stuck somewhere.
The whole self-awareness feeling just comes to light. And now, I’m trying to explore many different areas of prespectives, cultures, expressions, and what not. I kept exposing myself to lots of things the good, the bad. All just refine that mere amount of creative juice left. I can’t draw for nuts, except of vines and leaves with a black pen. See more things, explore, play! What’s left for me to hold on to is just the hands with the camera, and the eyes.
Let the creative juices flow again!
More brainless repetitions of quarter-circle forwards, and frolicking and taichi in water. Need more stimuli!
