Scuba Steve's Guppy Gulch- Your First Dive

The sun is shining and warms the body as it peeks through the trees. The air is fresh and far away from city life. You hear the distant sound of birds chirping and the sound of fish jumping in the water. My friend you are at the hidden gem known as Guppy Gulch and you are about to do your first dive. In the background you hear a splash as some of the regulars begin their typical Saturday dive. You sign in with the owner and pick up not only your gear but also a few words of wisdom to carry with you. You assemble your gear and do the safety checks. Your ready to go diving, o wait, I’m not wearing my wetsuit yet, after a little grunting and groaning you are in the wetsuit and feel like a hotdog in its casing, you step up to the edge and look at the water. The instructor gives you last bit of advice and checks your gear. Its time! You enter the water with a splash and get an instant rush…..of cold water into your wetsuit. Your body soon warms that up. You descend below the surface and the outside world melts away. No sound birds chirping or fish jumping it is just you and the water…and roughly 15 other students and instructors. You’re a little nervous as you approach the platform, “Will I remember all my skills?” “Do I have enough air?” You look at you gauge and everything is fine. You follow the rest of the students out on the line and don’t get but 15 feet from the platform before boom the student in front of you kicks up a cloud of silt reducing the visibility to zero. You look back there is an assistant behind you, “I’m ok”. After swimming for a while you wonder, “Alright, where’s the next plat…o there it is.” You finish your skills and go on a tour. You return to reality and you are a scuba diver and can’t wait to go back in…well may be after a cup of coffee.

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

People often asked the question, What do you want to be when you grow up? Most people want a specific career answer like doctor or lawyer but I think it is easier to describe what you want than place a title on it. I would like to find a job which does not put me at a desk all day long but im not on the road all day either. I would like something that is challenging but also not going to kill me with stress. An idea job will allow me to see progress in my efforts but not be tedious and repetitive. Self growth is another important aspect of the ideal job, growth can be obtained through learning new items or taking a new position. The truth of the matter is that I don’t believe that most of us will find an ideal job but will find something which we can live with and enjoy as much as we can. The American dream is to be productive, to see one’s efforts come together to flourish into something, a widget, a gismo, a project, a healthy person it doesn’t matter work is about accomplishment not about the task itself.

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