When I dance I always see the Light

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Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.  ~Terri Guillemets

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.  ~Martha Graham

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serous danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.  (Oscar Wilde)

Oh, boy, where do I begin?  She was just ill qualified to do the job.  Does not career counseling require some basic understanding what psychology is or how to deal with people to begin with?  A lot of time in the Career Orientation Workshop is spent on personality profiles, figuring out who you are, what you like, what kind people you like to deal with.  That is all psychology.  She was absolutely and totally clueless.  She was parroting the manual to us, thank you very much!  I am totally dumbfounded when it comes to that stupid woman.

She was from a small city.  It is not a sin, but she just enjoyed the security and never knew real challenges in her life.  It was boring, so she said.  She worked there in retail.  She quit because customers drove her insane.  That is a good sign.  Maybe working with people was not her forte.  Then she moves into a big city and works in a corporate world for four years.  She hates every single day of it.  All the wanted was an image of prestige, a power suit or something like that.  Never happened.  Then she goes to a career counsellor and thinks, “Oh, I would like to do the same”.  Why spend time and effort in choosing a unique or maybe suitable path, if she can “just do the same”.  Just like a monkey.  If you cannot think, observe and imitate.  Maybe I am not really fair to monkeys.

Anyway.  What I observed during her “facilitation” sessions.  She never listened; I guess she was not interested.  She was complacent, bored out of her mind.  Oh, well, there is a “Blue Caring” personality (right! a lot of people pick Blue, but truly they are not, remember that there are one 12% of really Blue people).  She seemed to enjoy “I am the boss here” scenario, but what she failed to notice that most participants were more educated and more qualified than her.  She was neither blue, nor caring, she was not interested and not capable of helping.  But employed.

One day we discussed the barriers that people usually have to achieve goals.  Inertia was one of them.  Her vocabulary did not seem to be limited, but when it came to explanations, it became hilarious.  When she was struggling with a definition (it is really hard to define something if you do not really understand the thing you are trying to define).  I tried to help her, saying that inertia in physics was “this and that”.  Not just an explanation, but an example as well. 

She snapped at me “We are not in the physics class!”

Of course, we were not.  I, with my Masters in Engineering, have to listen to a Canadian from a small town with some questionable “diploma in God knows what” who cannot define “inertia”, but teaches it.  How do you like it so far?

If it did happen to me now, I would have gone all the way to check her qualifications, I would have looked at her diploma, the curriculum, her marks and I would have asked her to define terms on the spot without looking anywhere.  Inertia included.

That is how I feel.  And you know why?  Because after all the work I have done on defining my personality profile I asked that stupid woman a question and what she replied:  “I DO NOT KNOW YOU”.  What the hell then are you doing in JVS counseling me?

All that education, and you haven’t figured out that zip.ca is not LavaLife or your own personal blogging forum? Next you will be selling a used sofa in excellent condition here. Geesh. Ca prends pas la tete a Papineau quand meme…

So, back to writing.  I already took some courses at DeVry Institute of Technology, in particular.  Even though, my specialty was computers (Information Technology), I had to take general educations courses.  That included writing.  So, there.  Checkmark.