Work It, Dad!
with Avi Spivack
Hi, I'm Avi, and I try to put the work and the dad together, with mild success. This is all about trying to give you a view from what it looks like on the dad-man's side of the world, and I hope you find my ruminations humorous because I try not to take myself too seriously.
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So with all of this “time off” that I’ve had to reflect on my life, I’ve begun to wonder if I’m still chasing all the things that I wanted, way back when.
Growing up in Boston, home of the Red Sox, Celtics, Pats, and Bruins, I was a devoted Bostonian sports fan, and needless to say, I wanted to be the next Dan Shaughnessy or Bob Ryan (or Bill Simmons).
I dabbled in the “announcing” of sports, my first try being the starting lineup of my high school varisty basketball team, whose names I thoroughly butchered. (So much for becoming the next Bob Costas). I did become the beat reporter for the women’s basketball team at my prestigious D-3 college (and they were 0-21 in my freshman year).
But those dreams have faded (just like my lame idea to become a comparative literature professor - ha!), or the next film editor for The New Yorker.
Then I thought becoming a teacher would be grand, expanding the minds of the young, shaping them to love Shakespeare and Henry James…foolish.
So do I really LOVE what I do now, a cross between technology and marketing? Do I wake up every morning with a zest for life, knowing that I am making a difference in the world?
Of course not.
But I am challenged and learning, helping businesses grow, and working with new technologies - cool, but not life-affirming, and certainly nowhere near where I thought I’d be.
I would say, then, that I am lucky to have the right genes to be happy enough where I am, still with many interests, even if my boyhood dreams did not come true.
What about YOU?
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I really love reading YOUR blog. I wish you wrote more often.
Why can’t you make your boyhood dreams come true now? What’s wrong with being a comparative literature professor?
I actually wanted to be an English professor. I love literature. I am totally obsessed with Shakespeare. (well, not so much now, but was in HS and college).
I am also fascinated by various business ideas and businesses. So I am trying to combine my love for English Literature and writing, women’s power, business, innovative ideas all into one by creating Women Can Have It All, professional development training for mom entrepreneurs in Queens NY. Women Can Have It All, offering possibilities.
Today my brother said that my goals are not realistic. Whatever.
I know many women will make fun of my business name. My response to that, “that’s ok, you are entitled to your opinion.” But I keep doing what I got to do. Because there are plenty of people that love it and sign up for my services only because of that.
Being the positive and optimistic person that I am, I say you work on your boyhood dreams, on a part time or full time basis. Whatever your life allows.
vera babayeva | February 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 am
I wanted to be a doctor.
Until I realized that disecting anything completely grossed me out and I couldn’t stand blood.
Robyn | February 24th, 2009 at 3:30 pm