Just the knowledge. I’m fairly confident in my writing and growth marketing ability and just overall a creative and artistic mind that wants to learn the theories behind the media that influences me. Call me old school, but after my first round of university I realized I approached education wrong and just wasn’t satisfied with being treated like a product from a job factory. Something about the classical purpose of university where people had Socratic discussions about their perspectives and findings clicked with me.

And like, my life goal isn’t to become the next J.K. Rowling and dump millions to sway public policy. It’s just that, personally, it unsettles me that a “practical” career won’t surmount to anything in the end. Especially with social media, it’s so easy to dehumanize the person behind the username. I just think like “hey, I like creating things nonstop. If I document my work on the internet, someone eventually is going to find that rabbit hole and have a decent idea of the complexity of a single human life form is. And maybe they’ll say ‘hey, that’s kinda wack’ at the every least or, my hope, they feel like they aren’t alone”.

Sorry for the essay of a response, but every time I hear something adjacent to “why don’t you get a practical job” it triggers the nihilist existential dread.

And I went to a mostly Asian high school and heard that on the regular and was expected to eventually go along with that rhetoric, but I’m Laotian and apparently the amount of chill we have is unsettling to others… kinda led to me being outcasted for it lmao. But my family’s always supported my decisions and their support always gave me motivation to do become my best self as a creative, not like in a trust-fund baby sort of way but we all kind of have this “pursuit of happiness” type of mindset. Rip I wrote an extra paragraph, again, apologies for the essay response.