And so, the end is near…

Posted by bencooper | Filed under General, News

Yup, my dissertation is all done. It just needs to be printed, bound and then handed in to face the cruel ministrations of university tutors!

It’s been a fun three years, not least because I’ve largely avoided work (of the remunerative sort) and so had a lot of time to play videogames, go to the cinema, hang out with friends…oh and read lots of fine works of literature and improve my analytical and critical thinking, as well as my writing.

Now of course I face the impending world of work which I have so skillfully avoided…oh well.

In truth, like many people of my generation (and I suspect of other generations, regardless of what grandparents like to say of a simpler time where men were men, and women were second class citizens: “But at least we all knew who we were, dear”) I’ve never really known what to do, and I think this is the root of my worries about the future.

Ah well, as the Romans used to say “Your problems sort themselves out by walking”. It worked for them, until a load of Goths come walking in the other direction!

PS I’ve posted a new link to a fellow aspiring writer, Leigh Barlow. It’s over on my side bar and in the weblinks page. Have a quick gander…go on…go on…go on…ahh you will…go on…

Permalink | May 3rd, 2009

2 Responses to “And so, the end is near…”

  1. Leigh Barlow Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 6:12 am

    Ah, you’re very kind for the link and it is (when I finally get home this evening) reciprocated.

    Good luck with the dissertation and don’t worry about the work – things always sort themselves out. Or, as the most excellent Sunscreen song quoted:

    “Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people
    I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.”

  2. bencooper Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 1:30 am

    Hi Leigh,

    Thanks for the comment.

    Unfortunately I’m a major worrier, often driving my girlfriend round the bend, but as you say somehow these things always work out!