Thought on Blog

Now that the semester is over I technically do not need this blog any longer, however, I find myself hesitant to delete it for a few reasons. 

1.  If I delete it there is a good chance that I will just have to make another one for another class
2.  If that is the case then most of my classmates already have this blog saved
3.  I kind of like having this blog but I do not find myself using it as much as it could be

So for now I think I shall leave it up but who knows that will happen next.

Adding on to yesterdays post

So I was thinking about my post last night. 

I am currently working in the field of aquatics.  In the past 5 years I have working in youth programming, youth sports, teen programming, day camp, aquatics, preschool programming and family programming.  I do not see myself still in aquatics as a main focal point in the next 5 to 10 years. 

Rather I would like to get out of programming and more into facility management.  With my current position I have been moving that way and it was one of the main reasons why I choose to take it in the first place.  

Consider yourself five years from now and then ten years from now. Where do you see yourself in the profession?

Ahhh the last post for RMP 800. 

As I have asked myself this very question numerous times in the past 5 years, when I saw that Boyd proposed it again I thought "what the hack, lets make it the last one for the class to ponder."

5 yrs

I see myself do much what of what I do now only on a larger scale still in the university/non-profit sector.

10 yrs

I am hoping to be at a department director/executive director aka the big cheese.  At that point I will have been in the field for 22 yrs and hopefully I will be  ready to handle that level. 

Reflection: Discrimination

I am tired of talking about discrimination.  We go around and around about it. 

Basically I get very mad when it happens and I  try my best to not do it and to keep others from doing it as well.  I have been doing this for years to the point where I will hit my dad and brother (who are much less aware of the injustice of discrimination than I am) on the arm every time they make a comment that I do not think is appropriate and it has become an on running joke.

I just keep on wanting to say "so what? who cares?" when people bring up the issue of race, relingion, sexual orientation, etc. as a negative.  What does it matter if you work with someone who stops working a few times a day and prays?  Are they asking you to pray with them? Are they impeading on your ability to do your job because of their religion? 

Where I do get annoyed is when others try to push their beleifs on to me, missionaries in particular.  What right do they have to go tell others that what they have been doing for generations is wrong? They have no proof other then a book that was written WAY after the stories in it were and has been censored and edited for generations.  Hello, there are other books that are much older and people have been following them for much much longer.

As for the rest if it makes the people happy then let them be, why should anyone think they are better than anyone else?

One of those days.....

Why is it that I seam to reach my braking point with everything at the same time?  Today was one of those days were it seamed like I was getting fed up with everything at once, the stupid tv/dvr on deck, the new dvd player not seeming to be able to hook up with it, same issues with people over and over again, etc.  Why I ask you why?
I keep catching myself thinking of taking a vacation and going away.  I have not had a real vacation in about 3 years.  I think of going to the beach.......

Post-it: Mountains without Handrails by J.L. Sax

Parks as they Ought to be

• People who were active when they were young ordinarily continue to be as active as they can when they get older, and those who are reluctant to leave thier card range widely across age groups.
• Management committed to contemplative recreation should be just that, whether for the young and handy or the old and infirm.
• Places that are accessible to people that do not deprive natural qualities can be shown for all.
• National Audubon Society's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in FL
• Everglades National Park FL
• Lodging in remote places can cause issues for those who do not want to camp
• Mount LeConte Lodge in the Smokies
• Willingness to trade quantity for quality of experience
• limited number of back county permits
• rationed overnight access to places like Point Reyes or Ano Nuevo
• people wait years for a big game permit
• Many natural seashore lines are cut up by private development, preventing isolation that has traditional allowed parks to create their own ambiance.
• New closer-to-home parks provide an opportunity to show the urbanite what it means to be without distractions.
• Avoiding conditioned responses that get in the way of freshness of experience.
• Amenities interfering with interacting with natural setting.

At the Core of All this Wilderness and Luxury

• Public attention began to be focused more sharply on wilderness in years leading up to the Wilderness Act of 1964

Conclusion

• The parks are public institutions which belong to everyone, not just the wilderness hikers.

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