Little announcement

[FeelingTheBlues]

Greetings TRF,

I've been doing a lot of thinking these past months and I decided to make a little change in my life. I've been studying history for a couple of semesters now and must admit that through the classes I found it harder and harder to convince me it was the career made for me and especially my future job. I do enjoy history and have a passion for it but I got to realize that this passion was more of a student's than a possible worker's in this domain. Therefore I came to the conclusion that it was useless to try to convince myself otherwise and try to work in an environment in which I won't be happy and may not be as good as I'm supposed to be.

In the meantime (which may sound very recent but keep in mind that I thought about this for a long time) I came to another conclusion: I've always loved watches and I always will. Whether I was 7 and admiring digital watches full of gadgets, 15 and imagining myself walking around with a gold watch full of diamonds or 19 and getting to learn more and more about what's actually inside the case, I always found it hard to walk around without having a reminder of the actual time on my wrist (cellphone's clocks just don't do it for me).

Perhaps my Accutron is responsible for it! After all, had I bought a gold quartz watch instead of a tuning fork movement I wouldn't have realized there was so many different things that could tell us the time. It was this little problem of accuracy of hers that made me realize for a rather long time that a quartz watch was much better, it was also this problem that made me realize (although it took me a bit longer to actually buy a mechanical timepiece) that the inside of a clock, a watch or any time displaying instrument was such an amazing piece of art and craftsmanship. Furthermore, I also realized I needed to do something with my hands, I need my dexterity to be used (and perhaps developped) with the help of tools and knowledge to put something up.

I do realize the irony of such a statement coming from me but to mark my 5 000th post on this forum I would like to officially share my decision and my life change with the forum:

Ladies and gentlemen, I have the intention to study and find myself a job as a watchmaker.

I do not wish to sound like I'm pushing it but after such a long time of stressful thinking I'm very happy to say I came to this conclusion and am working on making it a concrete project. I am currently reading around a lot about the job itself, the studies and the schools that offer such a formation and am reading some useful advice from people who work in the domain. This decision of mine shall come with its load of efforts and sacrifices but I must say I'm much more happy now that I know I will get to be something I really want to be.

Thank you for reading such a long post, quartz jokes are more than welcome to celebrate!