Tuesday, October 11, 2011

What to do with my life?

I have been asking myself this question my whole life. Ever since I was a kid I was always looking to the future. I wanted to be a veterinarian up until I was 19 and realized how much I hated chemistry and physics in college. Once that dream was gone, the slate was laid clean, my next goal was to teach art history. WOW because there are so many job offers and ways to get into that business. Realizing how hard it has been to break into that industry, finally at 31 I have given up. I worked at a psychiatric office, kindergarten teacher, substitute teacher, marketing/google person, and now working in contracts. My resume and my life reads like a person playing with balls and jacks, each time the ball hits the ground, I pick up a new jack, and going in a new direction. Each time I start I think, this is just a stepping point to get somewhere else, I will figure it out, and now I am at the point where I don’t know how to figure it out. I have been researching how to figure out what to do with your life?? In Steve Job’s Stanford commencement speech he said “You’ve got to find what you love,” sounds easy, but it has been so hard!! I love what he says, so prophetic and true, we must love what we do and have no fear.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

”Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.”

I need to figure out what I love doing and how to get paid for it.
-I love writing
-I love kids
-I love art
-I love cooking
-I love learning about how to be healthy and the human body


Now to figure out what to do !

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