Wednesday, January 30, 2008

What should I be when I grow up?

The team captain and I are both civil engineers, we work for smaller land development companies (50-60 employees). Work is work. When I was in engineering school they really glorified how wonderful our careers would be. Well they lied. I don't hate my job but I don't wake up every morning jumping out of bed to say " I can't wait to design a detention pond" or "maybe if I am lucky I will get to design a road."



The design is okay and at times it is challenging which I like. I do like the client interaction. People are my thing, they always have been. So this has got me thinking about my future, should I really stay an engineer? Would I prefer something like teaching? Non-profit? Starting my own business? I just don't know! but I do know I can not do this for the next 40 years.



On the other hand the team captain is much more settled with his job. He was born to do engineering though he says his dream career would be a Park Ranger or a fishing guide. Which leads me to a major irony in our lives, we are both "live green", be "green people" BUT for our careers we rape and destroy the earth to develop more homes, busineesses, restaruants, schools, hotels ect. We are living a lie at work. We are the type of people that would rather live in some small cabin in the hills than in a subburb with the soccer mom and the SUV. BUT the need for the suburban family and their SUV's is what provides our pay checks. Its damn Irony I tell you.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Its our first time.....

at blogging, I am addicted to my friends blogs, who am I kidding I am addicted to a lot of blogs. So I finally listened to the voice in my head a created my very own.

Our blog name? Well, Team Entrada officially began during our college days. This is when a lot of stinky hormonal guys lived in our house. This was before I lived there or before I had even entered the picture. It was a name used to dominate in Foosball, beer pong or any other competitive situation. The guys who lived there were a team and I was a just a girl who fell into it. I had to try out you know...and they picked me.

The team captain and I were officially married this past October in Kauai. I say officially because we have been together over 5 years and lived together for more than 3 of those years. So things do not really feel different. I will write more about this later.

So why the team captain....well because I have a thing for team captains. Actually when I first met him I thought and fell for someone completely different than the person he truly is. This excites me. So here we are in our 20's home owners with decent jobs, two dogs, two crazy families and the desire to someday start a family BUT for now we know are adventures as Team Entrada must go on.