I sometimes think that I wish I had "psychic powers' so that I would know what it is that I'm supposed to do with my life. Each day that I bring up my career aspiration dilemma, I get a new idea that sounds great to me. First, I was interested in medicine. I talked with many people and did my research and decided that I was going to go to medical school and specialize in geriatric medicine. After many science classes that ended with me pulling my hair out, I decided that maybe medicine wasn't for me. So I started thinking and realized that I love helping people and I love writing (most of the time) and working in a hands-on environment. This led me to a conversation that I had with a neighborhood college kid when I was 8 or 9 that told me, after I had presented an awesome argument on some obscure subject, that I would make a great lawyer. So now, I'm thinking that maybe I should go into law. Probably not criminal, but divorce or family law. But then I talked to an aunt that told me of many people that she knows who go into nursing to make great money while they're in law school. Imagine having a nursing and a law degree? Who knew! It's like the best of both worlds for me. My only issue with it is that, of course I would have to take more science classes, and it would be an 18 month to 2 year detour from law school. Why detour, one would ask? Because I have a beautiful new 7-week-old daughter to take care of and while working a part-time, low wage job was OK for me, I need to do better for my daughter.
So there's the whole of it in a nut shell. So if someone has a crystal ball handy or a new phone number for Ms. Cleo, then it would really be helpful right about now. Or maybe I shouldn't even wonder, I should just jump right in and do it.
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