Zookeeper's Secret Exercise/Challenge

Took a Career Exploration and Discovery class. One of the things we did was brainstorm what our top picks would be of life-work that you would pursue if money was no object. This was an exercise/challenge from a wonderful book called Zookeeper's Secret written by Jeffery A. Thompson and Stuart Bunderson. 

This was back when I was an Educational Mathematics major and was contemplating swapping over to Computer Science. This is one of the exercises that helped me make the decision to do so. Thought I would share it here because why not:

Note: I fail to remember why they're ordered the way they are. Maybe it was just the order that I thought of them? Maybe they're vaguely ordered? I'm not sure.

Top Choice: Computer Programmer where I get to do whatever designers; As in, I get a large amount of choice over what I design. A story, a math program, a video game, a board game app etc.

Author

Computer Programmer

Math Professor

Board Game Designer

Math and Computer Programmer Tutor

Video Game Designer

I've Lost Some Things Due To Email Wackness

So on a mission you have a missionary email. Roughly 3 months after getting home from your mission, the email terminates. Before this took place, I shared many things over google drive from my mission email to my normal email thinking that that would be enough to save it.

Turns out that after a while it deletes anyway. This has lead to the loss of many things that I created on my mission that I am now rather sad I no longer have.

This includes:

-- I made a Patriarchal Blessing doc where I wrote out tons of things about my patriarchal blessing. I organized it, broke it down by different topics, wrote it in first person, amongst other projects. Many of those I can reproduce, which I want to do.    

But other things I can't reproduce, at least not in its fullness. For example, when I left Winder (my 2nd area in my mission), I wrote down all the parts of my patriarchal blessing that I saw fulfilled during my time there, and the specific experiences connected to those things. I also wrote down different things Jerome has said about me that connected with different things in my blessing; him identifying various gifts I have etc.

I can try to recreate those, but I feel I'd be missing a lot, and I'm sad I no longer have access to the things I wrote.

-- Several videos. There are probably a couple more that I've lost that I'm just unaware of, but I know that I lost several of the videos my favorite missionaries made for me for my birthday. I love those videos; they made that day so wonderful, and continue to make me smile when I think about them.

-- Mission Lingo. Mission cultures are so funny and so interesting. I thought all the different and diverse lingo used was hilarious. So I started collecting it. I started writing down all the lingo I heard and what it mean. Starting compiling a little dictionary, and it was fantastic. And now it's gone.

I could try to recreate this as well, and I could probably get a lot of it down, but I know I wrote down a lot of random ones that were rarely used that I'm sure I've now forgotten completely about. It would be incredibly difficult to get it back to its former glory.

-- Also potentially all of my mission weekly emails I sent out?? I can't find them anywhere, even on my home account that I sent them to. Super big bummer

We Learned How to Compress Aardvarks in Class Today

The title's only slightly misleading and happens to no longer be accurate because said event occurred last week, but I still think it's hilarious and warrants me posting it for I don't have time to write anything else today.