Slowchildren.com: Time!!

Time!!

This post by Dave Hyatt (one of the authors of Safari) is talking about one of those things in life that has me so scared. What is it about our culture that kind of just pushes us into living such specialized lives??

I got out of web programming, because I didn’t want to look back over my life 20 years from now, and see myself hunched over a computer. Now, at Berklee, I’m getting into recording and music synth. Both of these involve me staying up nights, crouching over my computer. (Sidenote: Why isn’t technology simplifying life? Instead it seems to be just sucking it all up.)

While I enjoy what I’m doing/learning. I don’t want my whole life to become so narrowed down. I want to spend lots of time hiking. I want to travel for more than 2 weeks a year. I want to have lots of diverse friends. I want to be able to just drive somewhere for a week. I want to have time for more than one hobby.

I also want to be successful at my chosen profession…but man! The competition out there is fierce. How will I afford to live in Marin if I don’t work as hard as these other people? Is it worth living in Marin, if I don’t have the time to enjoy it? How can I make in it a world where so many people become so specialized? Posted by Scott Mcdowell at March 20, 2003 11:51 AM | TrackBack