after the workholic splurt
(Apparently that’s my personalized spelling of the “spurt”)
So I’m owing a few blog posts, but work has been hectic with some migration for a tool on to a more sustainable structure, as well as some the-initiative-that-shall-never-be-named, known hereafter as “you-know-what”) developer work.
Here’s an article that my dear friend and often partner-in-crime, Seraph, sent me a little while back.
Let’s just say, it made me go “BOOYAH!”
I think in essence, this is what this blog is about. Just because a person may have a darker sense of humour, maybe just because that person leans towards the darker side of things and does not fit in the normal culture, does not necessarily doom them to a life of what stereotypes so fondly pictures – eating poor and broke on the streets. It doesn’t mean that we’re not normal people that have every day lives. We just…see them differently…
I’d also like to act too that it is a juggling act, but no more than it is for any other person, goth or otherwise. A coworker, very much in the mainstream culture, commented a while back how he has different faces depending on who he talks to. He definitely talks to most coworkers differently vs friends, vs business partners. That’s no more different than the juggling act that goths go through. The only potential difference (and I may be generalizing here) is that goths are rather used to being different, so may take less care to dress differently or act differently.
Whether I am goth or not is besides the point. But i know I revel in my differences. Yes I wear leather cuffs to work. Yes, I’ll wear my baggy jeans and my dead-animal-needs-love-too hoodie to work, from time to time. I’ll keep it toned down to a respectful level for the business environment (or at least try…there are no guarantees when I’m (a) tired or (b) sugar-high…wait..that makes most of the time..) I’ll joke with dark and sometimes morbid humour (albeit in softer hushed tones..never know who you might offend and I want no lawsuit!). But overall, I think that’s no more different than any other person’s quirks.
I think this article makes some fine and interesting points to consider. Who knows, maybe the person sitting next to you at work might be a closet-goth!
Fact of the matter is. We’re just another kind of people. No need to get all worked up over it, hauling out the crosses and garlic.
No Nics, we’re not reeeaaaally vampires… really!
PS.
During the writing of this post, random comments were made by my coworkers, including: “this exchange server sucks donkey balls”, as well as various interesting curses and discussions about how frustrating our technology is. Oh, and also various discussions about daikons and how to eat one… just…don’t ask.)
I can imagine Goths having different faces with different relationships…but I thought that being into Goth was about being in your face and down to earth about who you are and not caring what others think…(which is why they aren’t afraid to look different – yet similar in their genre). Or was that all just my imagination, just like how I think many of them would be interested in drinking blood haha..
I don’t disagree with you Nics. I think in fact, that that is what many goths or others in various subcultures struggle with, to find a balance between staying true to themselves, without losing respect of their peers. Though there may be a little less “caring” of how they may be perceived, when in a corporate environment, that is part of survival. So it’s all baout finding that balance. It’s partly why alot of goths DO choose not to work in large older corporations, simply because the acceptance level is perhaps not as high as say, maybe some of the new young, hip and cool software/design/gaming companies