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June 27, 2008

Parsons ho!

When I went to Ghana this March I had some serious thinking to do. I'd already done what I had set out to do with animation before I got to NYC. That was to just become an accomplished animator - done - but I was bored. So, I used all that time away from my familiar surroundings to figure out what to do next. Instead of coming up with where I wanted to go next with my career, I realized that a big source of my unhappiness was due to how little I was doing other than pursuing a career. I realized that the thing that made me most happy was my basketball team over at Chelsea Piers. There goes the lightbulb - if something outside of work is making my life more fulfilling, then why not just add a few more outside-of-work things? Here's what I decided - teaching and acting. The acting thing turned out to be easier to find (I've been taking an improv class for the last 6 weeks) but teaching wasn't panning out. I had contacted all the people I knew involved with schools to see if there was something I could do. Surprisingly, it was when I'd stopped looking for a couple of weeks that someone from Parsons called me up, looking for a teacher for their Maya class on Thursday evenings. Bingo!

Posted by zboog at June 27, 2008 5:12 PM

When I went to Ghana this March I had some serious thinking to do. I'd already done what I had set out to do with animation before I got to NYC. That was to just become an accomplished animator - done - but I was bored. So, I used all that time away from my familiar surroundings to figure out what to do next. Instead of coming up with where I wanted to go next with my career, I realized that a big source of my unhappiness was due to how little I was doing other than pursuing a career. I realized that the thing that made me most happy was my basketball team over at Chelsea Piers. There goes the lightbulb - if something outside of work is making my life more fulfilling, then why not just add a few more outside-of-work things? Here's what I decided - teaching and acting. The acting thing turned out to be easier to find (I've been taking an improv class for the last 6 weeks) but teaching wasn't panning out. I had contacted all the people I knew involved with schools to see if there was something I could do. Surprisingly, it was when I'd stopped looking for a couple of weeks that someone from Parsons called me up, looking for a teacher for their Maya class on Thursday evenings. Bingo!