An email exchange betw/ me, Mark, and CWebb

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:41:40 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeff Cho"
Subject: A serious question
To: "Mark Hutchison"

Do you think I will be miserable if I were a college professor?

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From: "Mark hutchison"
To: "Jeff Cho"
Subject:RE: A serious question
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:43:10 -0800

Man I can't believe Hunter S. committed suicide. A guy who seemingly had everything he could ever want, a great respectable noteworthy career, money, family, celebrity and he shoots himself in the head. I guess a life of abuse takes its toll. Funny that it was the abuse that made him and destroyed him.

Dude I can't think of a better job then a professor. You get to impact intelligent kid's lives, continue to study and explore your chosen profession, maybe you yourself generate something noteworthy. By no means an easy road to travel, but a rewarding one. You get to do something you love and get paid a little for it. Miserable, I think quite the opposite. You will undertake a passion of yours, something rare I think in the real world of careers. The people you meet and interact with will be brilliant, like minded and very cool. Plus if you work at a university with a sports team you can watch all the games and hit on the cheerleaders.
Miserable to me would be stuck in the office working 70 hour weeks doing something that just pays the bills. Plus you get summers off and can always take a sabbatical to anywhere in the world for quote scholastic reasons. Seriously I think you/people can be miserable at anything they do if that's their attitude, what ever you do will be at a high level and interesting/rewarding.

C.Web to Philly, can you say playoff run.

-Mark

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:53:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeff Cho"
Subject:RE: A serious question
To: "Mark hutchison"

WHAT!!!?!??!?!

Just checked ESPN. Oh well, there goes AI's chance of ever winning a championship.

cho

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:23:46 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeff Cho"
Subject: RE: A serious question
To: "Mark hutchison"

About the acedemic path:

You made some good points. Looking at the big picture, being a professor would be a pretty cool career. I agree with you on all your points: exploration, learning, intelligent coworkers, vacation, sports, cheerleaders and so on.

That is just the thing though. I am so attracted to the big picture, I WANT TO SEE MYSELF DOING it. Whether or not I WANT TO DO it is what I am not so sure about. I am not really even sure if I love philosophy, seeing
that I just can't motivate myself to work on my essay or do the reading (which played a part in my decision to stay another year).

I do get excited about it, I mean really excited when I read something with philosophical relevance, but only in short bursts. I wonder if I have the
staying power to stick it through as a career? Can you imagine the daily grinds of a professor, if I am not any good at it?

How is your job going? I can't get the fact that you're now saving up for a house out of my mind. Is this the same Mark?

Anyway, the whole thing started when Simona told me that I am really a doer wanting to be a thinker, and that philosophy would be miserable for me. I am not saying that she's right, but you can see why I love to be with someone like that.

cho