I was chatting with someone I had met online (a brother of a friend from college) and he asked a question that has made my head spin. He has taught English in a variety of places so I was picking his brain about that. Out of the blue, he asked me if i had ever considered the Peace Corps. I admitted that I hadn’t, and we went on…
Afterwards, I couldn’t shake the implicit question about joining. It has some appeal, but there are some things that don’t. If I joined it, it would be another opportunity to live in a different culture, and everyone says that it is a great experience. On the other hand, it would be another 2 years of being poor…
They have positions in Morocco and Jordan. Those are the only places they work in where my language could possibly be of any use. It probably wouldn’t help much in Morocco though… If I went to either, I could continue my Arabic studies with no problem (which I could see being attractive again in the future). On the other hand, it might be a good thing to go someplace totally different. I dunno…
There’s always the option of just getting some certification and teaching for pay of course, but with the Peace Corp there is always the potential to do more.
At this point, I have a lot I want to accomplish (like being able to walk a couple of miles again) before I even consider anything like that. Still, I’ll be wondering about it…
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Give yourself a winter before you do anything rash. Enjoy snow, life minus sand, etc. Be a capitalist for a while.
There will always be an opportunity to spread the cult of obscure economics to other parts of the world.
Yeah, I’m thinking I need to feel fall again. It’ll also be nice to get a full winter as well. We’ll see what happens after that.
Cult of obscure economics? C’mon, this stuff is pretty basic cause and effect stuff. I’ve never dived into the really complicated end of the economics pool (mostly because I can’t). What I really, really want to get across is obvious effects of actions that governments take or want to take. A lot of things are done because it sounds like it’s a “good” thing to do, but people only seem to anticipate the results that they want. If I do my economics posts well, you’ll be able to see more than just the expected outcomes and hopefully get a glimpse of the magnitude of the costs in involved, monetary or otherwise. Obscure? This is basic stuff…
Isaac