Posts Tagged ‘Career’

I am watching “Love, Marriage and Stinking Thinking” on local tv for the first time where the topic is “too young to get married”.  They are saying that people should get married sooner because of the reproductive system health, grandparents and majority vote. Which means waiting till you are financially stable in your career to raise a child is too chancy.

Reproductive system health – 60% of the kids born from 18-25 year old parents have the ability to live to 100 years old. (study not resourced)

Grandparents – Grandparents are the glue that helps couples to raise grand kids. Have kids younger so the grandparents are healthy enough to take care of them.

Majority vote – He said that since Christians don’t think like everyone else they need to have more than 2 kids to represent the church in the future. This will ultimately out populate the “Pagans” and the “heathens”.

Career vs God – If you wait till you are happy in your career your reproductive system might not allow you to have kids. So you will have to explain to God that you were too selfish to have kids.

What I have to say about this:

First off, when I watch a show like this I think about what their motive is. I have decided that the motive for this episode is to bread for the good of the church. So when he said to have kids sooner he was only thinking of the long term representation of the church.  He justified that the grandparents will be there to help the young married couples to raise the grand-kids physically, emotionally and financially.

I don’t believe that having kids should burden more then the parents. Kids should not be willingly brought into this world thinking the responsibility of the kids should be passed off to others. I think it’s great if the grandparents want to help, but I think it’s selfish for the church and the parents to blindly rely on the grandparents to help. I believe that it is healthy for the new family to be financially stable in order to afford the child. Even if the chances of having kids decrease with age, I believe God would understand that you had to take care of your own health and well-being before trying to bring another human being into this world.

Many people who just meet me or who have regained contact with me ask me about my career. Really it’s kind of hard to explain to them what I do. Just last Thanksgiving I was explaining to a family member that a small part of online marketing is SEM and what I do.

Search Engine Marketing is the task of marketing/advertising a business on search engines to people who are looking for solutions or answers to their query. Then they will hopefully see an ad, read it, feel compelled to click it and land on a page that will hopefully result in a conversion of some sorts. SEM is the task of writing ads, placing those ads with bids and relevant keywords, plus some sort of desired goal or conversion that will ultimately help the business make money.

I was absolutely humbled by the lack of knowledge he had. Asking me “so you buy words that already exist?” That just made me smile to know that I know something that he didn’t. But then that conversation also made me realize that my specialty and passion is within a niche. I honestly believe online marketing is my career path because I enjoy the theory, the practice and sitting back to analyze the whole task for trends and possibilities for improvement. Not to mention, I can do this job from home if I really wanted to.