Inspired By A Man Who Has Stood In A Giant Pizza Box For Money

Me and my friend Sam were discussing what shapes a persons' mentality when regarding what they perceive as useful knowledge the other day and so I decided to write about what we discussed. I won't mention any names but this conversation came about when we were discussing people that had either dropped out of college or had been forced into a particular course or job they wouldn't have previously chose due to their inability to perform at a good standard in their A levels. Now, it'd be hypocritical for me to in anyway have a go at anyone that didn't do well at their A levels as I myself did very bad in my exams and somehow got into my first choice university on a course I love. I got lucky. But that doesn't stop me from almost seething with anger when anyone who has been forced into or decided to follow a career path that hones "practical" skills rather than doing the kind of degree that I am doing which hones "creative" skills decides to believe that they are doing something which will better themselves far more than anyone deciding to do something in the arts. Sam's opinion on the entire subject was that we must try and increase our ability in both practical and creative talents rather than sticking with one. Although I partially agree with this it's not how I feel on the subject. I would never describe myself as "a creative" because it's pretentious and comes with connotations of being a twat, quite rightly in many cases, but I am also someone who has near to no practical skills and I don't care about that. My ideal career path would be one where I can write the way I want to write about any subject matter I choose to write about, to use words as a form of expression. Whether this be lyrics or a novel or maybe even a journalist, I don't care that I will never know anything about car maintenance. This doesn't make me better than anyone else nor does it make me worse than anyone else but I do believe that it makes me a different person who desires to have more of an understanding about many more things. This subject can almost always stray into a debate about my opinon on the cuts in universities and the many marches that have taken place due to the proposed rise to student fees last year. Whether or not I agree with any of that is a different matter that I won't get into but it is interesting to note how many people reacted in their different ways, specifically those who scoffed at the entire affair. These are the people who find it hilarious that anyone could ever care about such a trivial thing, get your head sorted you moronic students, wait till you have to get a fucking job in REAL life. I think we can all be agreed that these particular people are twats who don't deserve a moment of our time. I've digressed here, my original point was that whether or not you see yourself as someone with "creative" skills or someone with "practical" skills doesn't matter. What does matter however is that we respect people's desicions and abilities, not take a negative opinon on someone else or a group of people purely because they have different talents to you.