The fuuuuture

People are always asking me what I want to do as a profession when I'm out of college. I guess I'm at the age where I'm supposed to be able to come up with a reasonable answer like "computer programmer" or "fashion designer."  Instead, I've been fairly consistent in my response of "pro snowboarder." I mean, it's like any other skilled professional position: if you want to play violin in the World Elite Symphony (I totally made that up. I don't know any prestigious musical positions one could aspire to) you're gonna to keep practicing and giving it your all so you can play with the best. I want to play my snowboard in the Olympics so I'm going to keep practicing and trying to get to that point.  I'm still only 18 and I've got a fair amount of confidence in my ability to make it to my goal.*

But what do I do after that? I'm working in a restaurant right now as a buser and it's such ridiculously hard work that I'm crossing "busing tables" off my after-pro-possible-career list. I don't particularly want a desk job, unless its some cool snowboard-related job. In the words of the great Wayne and Garth, I just want to "Party on!" My ultimate ultimate super awesome future career would be one that requires me to travel, go to parties, and meet people. I like being social and doing/seeing new things. I like excitement. Eric suggested being a social media director of a snowboard company. I think that would be cool. It'd definitely require hard work and it's probably a difficult job to get. But I think that will be my new post-snowboard get-a-real-job goal. Who knows if that will still be the position I want five years down the road? At least it's some sort of goal for now.



*I know I'll get shit from anybody who reads this because there's some sort of stigma in the snowboarding world about wanting to snowboard professionally. But I don't care. I'm not writing this to win friends or look cool. This is my diary and I'm being real. I'm not snowboarding for the sole purpose of going pro. I'm snowboarding because I love it more than anything in the world. Becoming a pro rider would just be a really exciting step in me living my dream.