New Year Resolutions

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

Happy New Year to all who have reached 2017!

An old tradition every time a new year arrives is writing or deciding on one's New Year's resolutions. It is a good tradition since it lets a person get rid of bad habits that's keeping them from living a happy or good life and acquire new good habits that will help them to live a happy or good life.

A good advice is to keep up the tradition of New Year's resolutions. It is like Spring cleaning! If you never do Springtime cleaning, you never get rid of the junks that accumulates in your house throughout the year. And if you've never done any cleaning at all in your house, your house can accumulate lots of junk, garbage, or extra baggage for your life. The same thing are New Year's resolutions. It get rids of the junks that accumulate in your life, in your house, and in your love. That is, before they become a bad habit in your life or before they become a hard and bad habit to break in your life.

You don't have to make a federal case out of making your New Year's resolutions. And you don't have to be religious doing your New Year's resolutions either. All it takes is 10 to 20 minutes of your time to think about them and to write them down. You need to write them so you won't forget them and so you won't have to trouble your mind to remembering them.

Here's a list of my new year's resolutions I composed while riding on the bus on New Year's Day around 4 pm to visit Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.

MY RESOLUTIONS
1. Never say that girl's name again.
2. Always look good.
3. Don't take home anymore Las Vegas Weekly, The Sunday, and Vegas Seven magazines.
4. Eat healthy.
5. Celebrate 2017.
6. Increase my circle of good friends.
7. Follow the rules of the game of love and life.

Seven resolutions is good enough for me because 7 is a lucky number. That's what most people say, anyway. These resolutions are not in any way organized by priority. Their numerical order corresponds to my chronological way of thinking about them while I was riding bus number 206 towards downtown.

FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CAREER

Last fall semester, I ended my signing up for a contract as a CIT (Computing and Information Technology) department programming and software tutor. This actually ended all my time as a regularly scheduled and regularly paid programming and software tutor since I started as one in the spring 2014 semester at CSN or College of Southern Nevada. When CAS (Center for Academic Success) department has stopped funding the regularly scheduled programming and software tutoring hours, CIT stepped in and started funding it in the spring 2016 semester. Regardless, I will still keep my Saturday programming and software tutor hours because, normally, regular business hours are not on Saturdays.

Now, I feel it is time I get a new job and really embark towards my future, whether it is a computer programming career or something or other.

And for those of you who are considering computer programming, web development and design, or Computer Science as a career, better think twice. If you think you are only going to these fields because you are attracted by the high salaries, better think again. There are many professions that are comparable to the high salaries of these fields. All you have to do is research them using the internet.

You should choose a career not because you are attracted by its potential for providing you a big salary. You should choose a career, first, because you love it, and second, because of the money. You should not make your love of money block the way of your love of life. Because you can live without money but you cannot live without life.

And one other thing, landing a job as a computer programming or web development professional can be hard, but not necessarily impossible. Why? Because it is a very competitive field. There are strictly no entry level jobs in these field, unlike, say, the nursing field or the culinary field. In these two fields, you can land yourself a job right after graduation. But as for computer programming or web development, only big major companies like Google or Microsoft have the money to hire you as a trainee, but you do need a four year degree in Computer Science or a facsimile thereof.

Good luck to all of us in all fields of life and love!

Just another pilgrimer in 2017,

John Sindayen

IDIOMS AND MEANINGS USED IN THIS BLOG
Make federal case out of = make big deal of.
Be religious doing = be strict or conscientious.
Everytime = not a correct word; should be every time; see https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071224111839AAlehW3.