He had tried of course after he left university to formulate some plan for his own betterment but it hadnt really surprised him to find when he searched himself for ambition merely the desire unobtrusively to survive He had applied for the types of jobs which had become familiar to him though the talk of his peers had latched himself wearily on to their futures and jogged behind as they rushed towards them unable to imagine that he might be put to some use which would manufacture as its byproduct his own happiness