Part 4 of civilian life: working

I have multiple internships and a job. One of my internships is 40 hours a week the others are up to 35 hours in a given week my job is 4-10 a week and my ministry and the Council has taken up over 200 hours since graduation. I also have done numerous blog posts, exercising, yoga, dance, other various learning things and being with friends. The work has not cramped my style but I thought I would have more time for music, movies, coffee, drinking tea and beer, eating ice cream, traveling a ton and being a light for others while having a ton of free days. I thought wrong. While I have done some things more that I have wanted to do like activism and like trying out most of the coffee shops and listening to some workshops the truth is that I am working real hard to create a valuable life for myself. I am not the same person as I was prior to graduation nor am I the same person I was two years ago while living with a roommate. Being on your own changes things. It makes yourself more self-reliant and more dependent on making yourself the boss of your own schedule and the boss of your own time. The work I have done has all fallen into place and the internships have piled up but I am grateful that I can choose whatever comes first for a job between Special Olympics and Barrier Free Idaho next summer. I continue to surprise myself with my challenging and demanding but doable workload and the self-direction work of hiking and gear making and other learning has been time consuming but rewarding. I feel the best when I work hard and when I have things to do and my love and zest for life and hard work is something that my old man instilled in me as well as my Mom and Stepmom working hard never ceases to exist and I work hard for others to learn how to do so themselves. Like telling my story for those who can't themselves I am a Bottdozer of challenges and imperative deliberation of hope striking down anything that threatens discord in its way. I feel the assumption that I am lazy because I am on Social Security and Special Needs Plan to be ruthlessly demeaning and I continue to use it as fuel to certainly create a better lesson in furthering my hard work and vitriol to make myself learn better, move harder, and become a more seasoned and more enlightened human doing all the while fueling myself to work as hard as I can doing as much as I can. Of all the parts of civilian life this is the one I am most proud of. Hard work has gotten me to the point where I am today and as I continue to work hard and gain appreciation for others my continual impressive streak of learning and being not complacent and willing to get better is my favorite part of this continual spiral of producing hard work and being even more productive in life which is wonderful. Stay tuned for the next three blogs which are the series of top 10s of 2018: top 10 social avenues, top 10 object lessons, and top 10 trips and achievements (5 trips and 5 achievements in 2018)