To Be Or Not To Be

"When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home."

 - Betty Bender

So here I am, taking a break from writing, and what am I doing? Writing.  There's just such a contrast when it's done for pleasure.  It so happens that I'm writing a paper for my Career and Life Planning class on three potential career options.  It truly took everything I had to narrow it down and stick with three to write about because I kept changing my mind.  At the beginning of this year, I had my life completely planned out...for four years, to be exact.  But boy oh boy, did my plans soon change.  College opened up dozens of opportunities that I didn't even know existed and my career class has shown me two dozen more.  Goodness gracious, my life planning isn't working so well.  I was so 1) irritated that I couldn't make up my mind and 2) just plained flustered with all the options.  So, I complied a list (me and my lists...) of the things that I enjoy doing and things that my dream future career would include.  Here are a few I came up with.


Childbirth.  Yeah, that's right.  I seriously find it fascinating!  I attended a birth class with my sister-in-law when she was pregnant and I left feeling so educated and giddy because the information was just so...awesome!  I have since discovered that you can be certified to teach these classes and it's probably the number one career in my mind.  This week, anyway.


Helping others.  I truly want a career that I can interact with people of every kind and hopefully leave a little footprint in their lives.  There's just so much satisfaction that comes when you assist others.


Creativity.  I think it's essential for my future career to involve some kind of creative expression.  I'm a very hands on, artsy gal, and have a strong appreciation for the arts.  I do not enjoy sitting in a cubicle staring at documents.  No sir, that's not for me.  Give me song, give me stage, give me art, give me anything!


Visual achievement.  What I mean is, I like projects that produce an end result that I can actually see.


Working as a team.  I love working together with people to combine ideas and compose one end goal.  There's just something so rewarding about it.  However, I also enjoy freedom and independence to work on my own.  So this one is kind of a half and half thing that requires balance.


There's my list so far.  I'm sure it's really of no interest to you, but these posts are helpful to me.  It's better to work out my thoughts in writing.  So, if any of you have a sweet idea as to what my future job should be, you just let me know.  I'm simply looking for something that keeps me pumped and that I enjoy waking up and going to every day.  Is that so much to ask?