Choosing a job (1) When I came back from traveling, I had to decide what to do next. I did not want to go on working in the office; I was sick of computers and the whole IT field. I felt apathy and alienation. Friends advised me to work where I've already got experience. I concluded to give a try: found some company that needed sysadmin, got appointed for a job interview. Eventually, on the scheduled day I skipped the meeting and turned off the cellphone. I simply didn't feel like doing it. Yet, apparently, I still had to engage myself, because in our society it’s all about the money after all. No one is going to maintain you (except family which is inappropriate for me for some reason) when you want to stop, take a breath, reconsider your life and go in for something fresh. Moreover, even if you’re able to do that, usually employers either reject you without experience and diploma or offer low-income position. In order to avoid that, the one should get second education that is never free of course. Well, to be true, I’m not that ambitious. Careerism is for narrow-minded people. I’m pretty much ok with unqualified labor. Actually I never felt more free and happier than when I volunteered in kibbutz for food and a roof over head. But that was not at home... It was the end of December, when once being in a subway I spotted the enrollment notice. It said they recruit students for a six and a half months course of a subway train driver. I thought: why wouldn’t try something new? They provide studying, the scholarship fits, that’s the chance to live collegiate life again, and in the end they give guaranteed placement.