Today is my first Friday at IndyHall and I must say, it's a very different experience than a Friday at any other job I've ever had.
I was just sitting here with a cold beer in front of me, happily learning Adobe Illustrator with a little direction from my resident Guru, Johnny Bilotta, when my eyes wandered to the clock and BOOM! It's almost five o'clock.
I've spent my employed life watching the clock, saying commonplace things such as, "Lunchtime: Second best time of the day." and "I can't WAIT for the weekend. This place SUCKS!" and so on and so forth. I was a typical grunt loathing my typically horrible vocational environment.
However, today I actually find myself wishing that clock would wind backwards a few hours so I could have more time to work on this project Johnny has so kindly included me in. I find myself in this zone I get into when I'm enjoying myself and learning at the same time. I'm not sure I've experienced this since childhood outside of purely recreational learning, e.g. mastering a new video game.
I guess the point of this post is to say that as my first week of interning here at IndyHall comes to a close, I find myself utterly and effortlessly convinced that this environment is the way forward for not only myself, but countless others like me. I feel as though I've enrolled in a new school, one where knowledge is exchanged freely rather than as some abstract form of currency. As environments go, this one is unlike anything I've ever seen or experienced before. IndyHall is truly unique.
I apologize if this post turned out to be somewhat of a ramble, but joining this community has been a life altering event for me and I feel as though that is worth sharing with the admittedly limited number of people that will read this.
IndyHall has rekindled my creative side and my desire to learn countless new things all at the same time, not to mention brought a slew of interesting new people into my life. For this I am very grateful.
More Later.
Signed,
BIG
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