In my work on my internet t-shirt shop, I feel only limited by not enough time! I hope to one day be self employed, and while I know that brings its own set of challenges I expect to feel much more free because I will be the one in control. The decisions will be mine.

Hmmm…is this, then, an issue of a limited environment, or of self-determination?

I’m a teacher on one hand. I’m with the same 120 or so kids a day. I’m told what to teach, when to teach it and how I’m allowed to teach it.

Then I got thinking about how to overcome the limitations and I realized, no, I don’t work in a limited environment. Those kids may be the same kids every single day, but no day is ever the same. Heck, one class to the next isn’t even the same. Each child brings their own attitude, baggage, insight and questions which makes the whole process very enlightening. I tend to forget why I went to college through the summer!

On the other hand, I’m a graphic designer. I thought, no limits there. But then I realized, there are more limits (in different ways) on that, then there is to being a teacher.

I work out of my home. I work in a very small town, in a very small state. Though I see the unusual in most everything, I often have trouble finding exactly how to express that through design. And I often think, Man if I could just go to “x”, I’m sure I’d get inspiration. But I have the inspiration, just not always the ability to translate it. So, I suppose the limits are in my head and in my abilities. Which is always an obstacle.

So sorry. I wrote a mini novel for you.