Once you die, people won't remember you

I spoke with my oldest friend Sam today and she got me thinking about the future. She has figured out entirely what she wants in life; go to australia, become a teacher and then come back to Toronto to teach English in high school. Everything is so mapped out for her, she already set up a savings account to start accumulating money for Australia.
I feel lost next to her. I guess you can say I feel a bit like Nancy Botwin when she started dealing: she kind of knew that she was doing something but she wasn't sure where it would take her. I feel the exact same here.
Today was also Career Day at school. Theoretically this day makes a lot of sense, for someone who knows of their field of interest. For me in the other hand, it felt a bit boring, repititive and left me feeling unfulfilled.
There was this one woman, a former chief of staff of michael Bryant (Bryan?) who, despite being totally self righteous and a bit of a name dropper, seemed to have a pretty exciting job. What's more, she had 2 blackberries, pretty much the only prerequisite for my future job.
I kind of wish that someone who went into the field of business had spoken to us. Perhaps someone in the field of marketing or advertising would be nice. a job like that would be perfect for me. I would get to design ad campaigns for amazing new prducts that people don't need, tell women they don't look good enough and attend wonderful launch parties. And on top of that, I would have a blackberry!
Additionally, it would combine my love of everything in the media with my wit and creativity and wittiness. i could become famous for my style of ad writing. Those in the biz would start saying "his style is so very Lewis-esque" or "that's definately a Lewis ad". Ahh..I'd be living the dream.
I told my dad I'm thinking of going into advertising. These were his responses:
1. why not go into economics? you're good at math
2. but that job doesn't really matter. It's the type of thing that once you die, people don't remember you
3. but that takes a long time to get ahead, don't you want a family?

...I'm going to see what my dog thinks.

Look to my upcoming post for a diet on how to become a Marketing Hot Shot

Now for the haiku:

started a new book
girl has quarter life crisis
i've had a one-eightth