The Journal of Ron!

So, I am sitting here in the computer lab at the Main Campus of UCF.  To get to the main campus (at which I have two classes) I have to leave my apartment an hour and a half before class...  It makes for a long ride.  I usually get here with about 15 minutes to kill before class, so here I am posting an update!

I got back from Maine two nights ago and had a fantastic trip home!  I was able to spend a lot of time with our pugs and didn't have a single stress the entire week. 

With five weeks left of classes in the semester, I am beginning to realize just how close I really am to graduation and how I have no idea what I want to do after.  After doing the Disney thing for the past year, I know that I want a career that will offer me consistency and balance, but I also know that I will never be happy in a job unless there is always something going on.  I do miss the excitement and hope that I can find something that will offer this.

Thats about it for now, I'll be counting the minutes through my intro to hospitality class, just waiting to go buy Enchanted!

I'm on spring break from UCF this week, and went back to the great state of Maine for the week!  I flew into the Portland Jetport - first time flying in there.  It has been a nice trip so far, cold, oh so very cold, but nice.  A lot has happened since I last posted in any online journal like this.  The bulk of my life last year was wrapped around a management internship that I had the opportunity to experience on Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom.  It was an incredible learning experience, something that I will always cherish, but it made me realize a few things.  My priorities have certanly been changed, and I now know that Disney may not be the only place that I can pursue a career.

Right now, I kinda want to go to law school, but based on my GPA and LSAT Practice scores, i'm not really sure that law school is an option, but who knows.  I do know that it looks like I will be graduating from UCF in December.  A part of me really can't believe it.  I have wanted to go to UCF for as long as I can remember, and here I am, a few months away from graduation and have no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life.

I've always been one of those people who has known exactly what he wanted to do.  Since freshman year of high school, I wanted to go to the University of Central Florida and get a job at Disney.  Now, i'm not even sure I want to live in Orlando much longer.  Yet, for as much as I talk about escaping the heat, that is certainly where my life is.  I've been down there full time for almost three years.

Currently, I am reading a book called "What Color is Your Parachute?"  It talks about the career search and things that school should have tought us.  I can thank school for teaching me how to be a great employee, have a great resume and of course, ace the interview, but other than that, school has not told me how to go out and get the interviews.

I do think that posting in a journal will be a good way for me to get my toughts out on paper and hope to update to this reguraly.  I will be posting some stuff that I will share only with myself, some only for my friends and some for everyone.  If I know you, please go ahead and book mark this site and add me as a friend.  For those who know me, I have a hard time taking too many things seriously, and I want to take this as seriously as I can.  Of course, there will be plenty of political rants, postings of whatever I find entertaining at the moment and all that good stuff, but I want to update everyone as to my thoughts, both important and fleeting!

If you have made it through all this, then thanks!  If not, thats fine, screw you too! :-p 

I doubt anyone is going to be reading this thing, but if so....

here are some of my old journals that I found online, kinda fun to read :-)

http://ronwrobel.livejournal.com/
http://skipperron2005.livejournal.com/
http://derosenchild.livejournal.com/


It is kinda fun to see these old entries.  Much more soon to come from here :-)