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for all the tl:dr (too long: didn't read) folks Disco is going into politics and thinks about things sometimes probably....
What is your career/career goal, how long has it taken you to figure it out and get to where you are?
Easier asked than answered no doubt. It's taken me the better part of 24 years to figure out what I want to do. That's not right....
I always knew what I wanted to do I just didn't know how I was going to go about doing it.
Let me start at the beginning.
When I was young, I had a crazy dream. A dream that no one wants to have.
I dreamed that I was President....
and
needless to say, it affected me....
From what I remembered of the dream initially, being President didn't seem very fun. And didn't seem like something that I would enjoy very much.
Now I understand that a few people out there are probably thinking, "Being President sounds like a pretty sweet thing, why's he bitching about it?" (or not, I really can't gauge your interest at the moment... that is unless I'm right behind you......)
just kidding...
But I digress... People always dream about being elected President, not the actual doing of the job. It's tough being accountable and responsible for your family isn't it...
How much tougher would it be to be accountable and responsible for 330 million Americans?
At that point, I let the dream fade away into fuzzy warm childhood memories and didn't worry much more about it.
Fast forward to my freshman year of High School. It was a pretty standard and boring year, besides deciding to go from AP classes up to IB. And economics. I had a feisty little Latino teacher I can't remember the name of. Anyway, I really enjoyed the class and liked how it it dealt with the Macro rules that govern our financial system. This class planted the seed.
The next year I moved into IB, or the "nerd herd" as high school vernacular would have it. With this I began the study of European History with the reverred Mrs. Coburn. I dug the wars and state building, thought the Renaissance was pretty cool, and really got into the enlightenment. I think this class, is where my true education began. Where I began to study the ways in which powerful sovereigns deal with each other to the greatest benefit (or detriment) of all. This was the first class that dealt with complex interstate diplomacy, and that really hits my intellectual G-spot....
Unfortunately my AP US history teacher sucked my junior year so the budding diplomat inside me took a nap that year. That was until I got the opportunity to Study at Cambridge in England with the Cambridge College Program in the summer of 2003.
That summer for the first time I GOT TO CHOOSE what classes I wanted. Well two of them at least. I was forced to take British Cultural History (but it wasn't so bad). For my other classes I chose the History of Espionage and International Relations and terrorism. The funny thing was, the Espionage class was a double-oh-seven snoozer.....
And International Relations and Terrorism was a
Revelation!!!!!!
It was like a bomb was set off in my head.
To give you a sense of how this class affected me. Months later during my senior year in high while sitting in my Modern history class, I was drawing up multi-point plans on how to stabilize and leave Iraq. Plans that focused primarily on infrastructure and education. And I'm one lazy mother fucker.
My senior year continued my education in history. But not too much worth noting (career wise) happened that year.
I was accepted to the Alma Mater of both my Father and Grandfather,
The University of Florida
I got a 100% free ride to UF. I got paid for books.
My Father wanted me to be a business major of some sort. Well.....
He wanted my first major to be whatever I wanted but that second one should be business.
I hopped on the Poli. Sci. train from the word go, and thought I'd take a double in Economics. I was pretty interested in my core poli. sci. classes, but all the math in Econ, made me want to punch someone. Let it be said. I'm good at math, I just dislike it. And chose to stop taking it after trig. pretty much. I took IB math studies, my senior year of HS, hooray dumb math!
Anyway, outside of POS 4114 no single college poli. sci. class really stuck out at me. It was the class was called legislative politics, and I loved every minute of it. We got to conduct congressional simulations in class. Luckily I took it before I joined Lambda Chi Alpha and decided to become the guy your parents warned you about.
But that served it's purpose too. I did a lot of social growing in college. (interpret the term social growing as you will
ornstar
This is where the story gets difficult. I took the LSAT and didn't study. Did well enough to get in.
I come from a family of doctor's and lawyers, the lawyer gene skipped my Dad and went to me everyone thought. Well I did get it. Unfortunately as my penchant for math with tell you, ability for a subject doesn't necessarily equate to interest in it. There were a few classes I loved in Law School. That's what was so confusing. I loved, crim law, loved con law and loved criminal procedure. I remember speaking with my crim Law Professor who had been a Poli. Sci. undergrad at Harvard, and telling him that the laws were dumb that we should write better ones.
I was more concerned with right and wrong that what the letter of the law actually said.
The scariest part about Law School was the longer I was there the less I gave a shit about it. I was supposed to love this, this was supposed to be my calling. I damn near killed myself trying to prop up that facade.
It was while working with a Judge that I decided that this wasn't what I wanted to do anymore. Luckily this decision also coincided with my decision to fail evidence the prior semester.
I have spent the better part of this last year depressed and unemployed and worried about what I will be.
Luckily I had become close with several professors and the Judge I worked for and was able to square away some letters of recommendation. And had grown up in the neighborhood of the current Representative of Florida's 4th district Ander Crenshaw.
I sent in the app.
Way to much baited breath later....
Voila your internship in the exciting Metropolitan city of D.C. awaits...
NOW ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MY LIFE
I hope that answers your first question.
What do you do in your spare time?
Think a lot. Video games. Weed. Read. Follow current events. Hang with friends, blah blah blah........
What types do you enjoy being around?
I didn't know there were types I didn't enjoy being around.
What types do you tend to fall in love with, what did you like or not like about them?
Still not certain if I've experienced love. Certainly not reciprocal love.
What do you value in your spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend (if you have one)?
N/A
What do you love, what do you hate (about people close to you and just people in general, about life, rules, society, men/women)?
I love discretion. Someone smart enough that I don't have to show them how to play by the rules. I LOVE a challenge. The bigger the better, and who says love isn't a challenge in and of itself, maybe its the only challenge that matters.
I hate many things.
What's the first thing you notice about a person? (just a person in general or when checking someone out, what would you take notice of?)
Eyes.
Something you would change about yourself? Something you admire about yourself?
Change love handles. I admire my courage.
How have you grown as an individual, your life lessons?
I'm gonna say answer one kinda covered this. And since this post is already far too long I will leave this explanation for later.
What is your idea of an ideal married life? (Your roles, spouses roles, kids)
We marry while we are both working or she may still be in school. I would prefer a parent at home during the formative years i.e. the first 18. But this wouldn't be a unilateral decision in a marriage. I think kids need a mom or dad in the house at least until high school.
disloyalty
What do you tend to stand up for?
Human rights. The best argument I have ever made was on behalf of Hamdi in
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And just something I need to know... If you know an INFP, what do you think of them? If not an INFP then any NF's..
INFP's rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
