{"id":1537,"date":"2022-11-04T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imho.kileozier.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:18:43","slug":"many-roads-lead-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imho.kileozier.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Many Roads Lead to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a>
NEOM – Near Tabuk, KSA – Sept. 2, 2021 – “Discovering” a Natural Amphitheatre in the Desert.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Some\u2026go to Design School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\u2026get an MFA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\u2026don\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been asked by my students and the occasional TEA NextGen about my Career Path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did I get to where I am (wherever that is)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is through trial and error, taking chances, following my nose, embracing opportunity, living the dream and living the nightmare, venturing out on the limb, surviving the falls…sometimes just barely, celebrating the victories…and acknowledging the teams that made those victories possible, knowing we rarely accomplish, alone…making mistakes and learning from them, from hiding neither the error nor the lesson learned from it and seeking the lessons inherent in everything… Trusting in the Universe to support…and learning that while the Universe will always support us, it may not be in the ways we might envision or prefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And overall; that nowhere<\/em> is it written in stone that one must stick with a chosen path when that path turns out to be a bad fit or a mistake. Learn from it, take the lessons along to the Next Thing, and the Next Thing, and the Next…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not believe that Everything Happens for a Reason. I do believe that there are lessons inherent in everything that happens. I believe that there is no shame in not knowing an answer, and that the shame is in hiding the not-knowing. I hope to learn every day, with every job and gig and in every relationship. Knowing everything would be boring; n’est-\u00e7e pas<\/em>? I believe that Faking It til You’ Make It is a philosophy founded on a Lie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I strive to learn openly, to seek and see the best that’s possible in others and give the best that’s possible from me. I believe in encouraging and inspiring others to venture out onto the Limb of What’s Possible. I believe in truth, clarity, integrity, honor and candor (sometimes to my political detriment), in saying what one means, meaning what one says and keeping one’s word…and acknowledging the occasional failure without excuse when one’s word goes unkept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those philosophies have made for an interesting journey through Life, and I am fairly certain that it ain’t over, yet. The Career Path has been circuitous, and every job embraced and completed has in some way informed the next one and the next one and those down the line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So. All that in prelude to the laying out of my Career Path. It is clearly not a Route Planned and Followed; and I don’t know that I would recommend it. When and if I write an autobiography or memoirs, the title will be “Don’t Try This at Home!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though, here I am with a veritable wealth of Experience and experiences, a vast panoply of unique friends and unforgettable acquaintances and the knowledge gained from jumping in with both feet, digging in with both hands to every opportunity that appeals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So. Beginning in 1967:<\/p>\n\n\n\n