Well, I guess this is where I start my own adventure in blogging. I never really seriously considered a blog before, but with the encouragement of a number of my friends, I decided to give it a shot. I find it somewhat of a ludicrous concept that people will bother reading this, but obviously someone is if you can see it now. So I guess I'll have to get over my cynicism and just write for the pure sake of writing.
It seems necessary at this point to give a brief introduction of myself. My name is Greg and I am about to begin work with Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. I have been hired as a Student Development Coordinator and have been told that that means I advise and assist student organizations. A few months ago, I graduated from Miami University in Ohio where I studied Diplomacy and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies. So I guess that based on my studies, the moving to the Middle East part makes sense. The Student Affairs part, though, is just as out of the blue for me as it may be for you.
The explanation for my current endeavor into the world of academic staff is a mix of several elements of personal opinion and sheer dumb luck. Basically, I have a mental block about working for profit, so potential jobs in the business world never caught my interest. As for charities, NGO's, and the government, it would seem that at this point they weren't ready to snatch me up. So, when CMU called and offered me the job in Qatar, I leapt at the opportunity.
I am honestly really bored with what I have written so far. If you have managed to read this far, congratulations. You've probably noticed that I'm far more accustomed to writing academic papers and the like, than I am at just writing for the pleasure of it. Not that I don't enjoy writing, I just get too caught up in my training. Maybe that will be the good of this blog, maybe I will learn to relax, just a bit.
I'm going to cut this post off and try again.
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