Work on my life: How I want it

April, 2013

My student's life  is next to achieve the minimum to survive on this world: I'm going to be an 

engineer next year. Nowadays I'm finishing my credits this semester and a plan for my future is 

needed, and I have it but it may be an amazing dream, but there it go.

After completing all the credits my life should be focused on two things, in professional talking: 

my thesis and a job. My thesis should be accomplished in six months or very close, getting me 

graduated for a month or two before a year passed after I wrote this. But the work is a very 

different an interesting story.

When I talked with my  friends whose have being searching for one, or already got it, I learned 

that for many jobs, a period should be passed for getting, for real, the job. Working life, in 

engineering, apparently is very different of what I expected in terms of acquire a place 

somewhere: a test or more that will point for some area in no longer than two months. However, 

I have assisted to some conferences and with the dialogues with my friends, I learned that real 

jobs aren't achievable in less than a year, so I thought: Uhh, those are bad news.

Those are bad news because I do want to do a Master Degree and more, but the Master 

Degree I had planned to start it  in two years or less, imagine how difficult it may be if continue 

working, very possible outside Mexico City and studying on the U.N.A.M. or if had the chance to 

study it in another country, even more. To do that, I would have to be working somewhere very 

close to the  studies center or vice versa.

But what kind of job? My interest for many  things made me thing that many areas will fulfill my 

necessity about working: Designing mechanical systems, materials and phenomena 

investigation, controlling processes...

So with that my real plan is this: I want to get a job and stay there for two, maximum three years, 

and ask for a permission for studies, or if it's necessary I would quit, for studying my Master 

Degree and maybe the PhD immediately after that and maybe later get a consultant job . But 

why is the studies so important for me?

Well, I'm hardly someone that like to do the same every day, I need to ignore my duties one or 

two days, weekends out of account, or maybe more to be happy: But if that weren't enough, I 

like so many things which ones get me distracted or I want or need to learn so I  have to do it. 

Sadly, these days it's unaffordable to me, but after I started working for real I will have money 

and time for that. And it's almost an  obligation to myself because my passions have been 

almost always kept somewhere I could have them on  control and not being distracted by them, 

but they will see the light, it's a promise.

Due to many things I want to do, it's very important to get me time, and that comes when you 

don't have obligations for someone else. So the idea is to become a really surprisingly skilled 

engineer but, who really do engineering, for me that means pulling of darkness secrets of 

nature, developing new techniques, inventing and more. The key point is to do that somehow I 

could be the owner of the patent, so I may sell the rights on its totality or partially or not selling 

them at all, and what means that? Money.

But what you do with money? Well, I'm sure "spend it"  may cross some minds when they hear 

this question. But the intelligent answer is invest it. Why? Because it may grow and more you 

have more things you will able to do. You will get more money to expand your investments or to 

create your own company (which is also  investing). But don't forget that money is not everything 

or the most important in  the world, inclusive if the actions done because its possession made 

you happy.

Happiness should be ours true goal. I want the money to learn many things with theoretical and 

practical methods, but it's more important to meet the most possible thing and see if my real 

happiness is with something I met before or something unknown for me on these days, I'm not 

talking about love, but it may appear in the way or could be close to me right now, I'm talking 

about activities that make me feel realized. Knowing that, money would be only important for 

buying the necessary for me, and my family if get one.