My current job

About two years ago i started to work with the purpose of moving of my mother's home. My brother got me a job in the same place that he was working, the Instituto Carlos Casanueva, particularly in the virtual classroom of the technical librarian career, i'm a tutor. This job is seventy percent teleworking and thirty percent in person, i have to go to reunions of about tree hours a week in the institute.

This job it's not well paid, but suits me perfect with my other activities, so i appreciate it. Besides, my boss give me some freedom in my work, he just want that the work is done, and not much how i do it or in what time of the day or the week. He is also a very nice guy, he truly wants to make a high quality career for the students. The real problem is the owners of the institute, their only goal is to make profit with education. This means low salaries for the teachers and the other workers, poor working conditions and precarious careers for the students. So my job is the best example of how disastrous the mercantile education is. This encourages me to make a change in the chilean education.

That's me when i'm working (the guy outside it's not my son)

What about my ideal job?

I really don't have a concrete idea of an ideal job. I think that's because i don't have an idealization of any job in particular, but instead i idealize the context of that ideal job. Certainly this society it's not that context. That's because any job in the capitalism had limits, in one hand by the selling of the product or service in the market, so just the ones who have the money to pay for it could access to it, and in the other hand, the labor market it self suppose a business that only pursue the profit, not the social wellness that the their product or service will do. So, in a society that is not organized according capitalist relations i think jobs would be very different, almost all will be meaningful and fulfillment. 

But we are in a capitalist society now and will be for many years more. So my ideal job now (a paid one) will be a half time one, that left me time for political activities, in a productive or academic area. In the past i want to be a baker, now i'm not that sure. I would like work in a press too, i think i like the design and the printed stuff, like papers, pamphlets, magazines, that can spread ideas and information. 

To any of these job i would need organization and planning skills, and for the press job i'll need contacts and communication with social and political organizations to do useful works and spread that ideas. I'll be doing my best because of the motivation of doing something for people even is a small thing like this. 

I think is not difficult to find any of these both jobs, but i' ll be hard to find one in which that's not just the pursue of profit the only goal. Maybe i have to do my own bakery or press to do the things i want to.

The ink smell is good

I hope getting up so early isn't that hard

Last Semester

The last semester ended less than a week ago. I didn't studied that much because my principal activity was to work in the students center in the faculty. My attendance to the subjects wasn't appropriate too. Apart from that I still learnt some things. I read  about Lenin's works because of my Workshop subject. I'm doing a theoretical investigation on the relation between practice and theory in Lenin's writings and his political action.

In my free time, I played a new version of an old computer game, now it has fancy graphics, but the story and theme are the same, is about an alien invasion to earth, in which the player takes the role of a secret and specialized military organization known as the X-COM.

Last semester i also did something i was planning to do long ago. I left my mother's home to live in an apartment with university friends and my girlfriend. Since then i have problems to visit my parents, i'm sad about that, but i have a lot of work in the students center.

So, a challenge from the past and this semester too is to spend time in my investigation (it's an annual one) and visit my parents more frequently.

And try to get early to English class.