In the beginning, everything was the kibbutz, and the kibbutz had everything.
But the world has changed since... And got bigger. Much bigger.
Working with agriculture at Bakkakot Farm, near Hvolsvöllur, Southern Iceland
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Dream Occupation
Someone asked me recently:
What have you always dreamed of doing?
I tend to believe that I've written about it a little everywhere. But there is more underneath the tip of the iceberg.
Well, in essence, it is...
Making stuff useful.
The essence of making stuff useful is to me...
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using whatever we have (strive to zero waste, of precious resources, yes, but wastefulness is wrong)
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inventing what we don't have (i.e thinking outside the box, for a change), through...
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thinking differently on utilizing resources, and creatively using my resources, my brain, and anything/everything I know and have done or have access to.
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It comes down to counter-intuitive thinking and being creative with everything, including (but not limited to) using my brain, my skills and all other assets, for the betterment of humanity as a whole and my micro-cosmos in particular.
I like it and I excel at it. And I tend to see patterns and will react quickly to my insights.
Some folks around me seem to think that I am “out there” (as in “what drugs are you using, dude?”), and some cannot tell whether I am joking or not (Yeah, that sense of humor…).
This feeling has been nagging me for a while now, that my peers usually don’t tend to get it, and all I've got left to do is lean back, and revert to saying, in hindsight: "I have been trying to tell you. That was the idea."
Would it happen just ever so seldom, then it might have been a fluke, or my ego, saying "I’m so great" and such...
But this summarizes many occurrences, the story of my life really. And even though it feels like an ego boost at times, I don’t like this role very much...Of the one who gets to say “I told you” in hindsight. I prefer that more people would be on the same page as I am, a little more, or at least acknowledge I might have something there, if only a grain of sense even, but acknowledged.