weeks over
Yup I get to go home today. What a waste of a week. half the day tuesday was wasted traveling, and now travel time on thurs as weel. I just don;t get the value of face time at the client site but not like I have to understand - just do as told!
When I get a moment to sit back and think about what I am doing with my career, I am starting to realize that maybe, just maybe, I don't have to go down the corporate road and be this business woman. What is wrong with me taking a job that might not require high stress situations and analytical thinking? Could I be happy working somwhere that perhaps required different skills such as interpersonal skills vs intellectual? I mean ideally I want to dance for a living! Be like in a troop or something that competes around the world! Do you get paid to do that?! I want to be a salsa champion (after I learn how to really salsa!). or how about like a dog walker? I like dogs and once I figure out my allergies I would be set! Not saying that would be an easy job - but at least I can exercise will working! This weekend MAC and I hung out at starbucks for a while and I have to say I was a little jealous about how much fun the workers were having. How nice would it be to have a straight 9-5 job that you can go home and not bother to think about until the next day! This whole traveling thing really makes me live my job 24/7. (well maybe 24/5).
I wonder what it is going to be like to have my mid-life crisis if I am already so skeptical with my life. I think there is a book out there about the quarter life crisis. I am all over that.
Oh and I decided I *really* don;t like my evil co worker. I swear he freaking belittles me all the time. I am going to send MAC out here to kick his ass.
When I get a moment to sit back and think about what I am doing with my career, I am starting to realize that maybe, just maybe, I don't have to go down the corporate road and be this business woman. What is wrong with me taking a job that might not require high stress situations and analytical thinking? Could I be happy working somwhere that perhaps required different skills such as interpersonal skills vs intellectual? I mean ideally I want to dance for a living! Be like in a troop or something that competes around the world! Do you get paid to do that?! I want to be a salsa champion (after I learn how to really salsa!). or how about like a dog walker? I like dogs and once I figure out my allergies I would be set! Not saying that would be an easy job - but at least I can exercise will working! This weekend MAC and I hung out at starbucks for a while and I have to say I was a little jealous about how much fun the workers were having. How nice would it be to have a straight 9-5 job that you can go home and not bother to think about until the next day! This whole traveling thing really makes me live my job 24/7. (well maybe 24/5).
I wonder what it is going to be like to have my mid-life crisis if I am already so skeptical with my life. I think there is a book out there about the quarter life crisis. I am all over that.
Oh and I decided I *really* don;t like my evil co worker. I swear he freaking belittles me all the time. I am going to send MAC out here to kick his ass.
posted by chicajato @ 7:47 AM
5 Comments:
At 8:38 AM,
jen said…
hey, i have also totally looked at the people at starbucks on chestnut and thought, wow, i totally want their job. but i think a job's a job no matter what you're doing. i bet if you asked them, they'd be like, 'ugh...i am on my feet the whole time and i am so freaking tired of making double soy lattes for rich marina a-holes'.
At 9:01 AM,
Anonymous said…
I am going through the same thing! Do I really want to beat down doors and collect money for a living? There is a quarter-life crisis book out there - I don't remember the name but will post it when I do. I want to read it.
I think the key is to remember that we are never too old to stop and do what we want. It may mean some sacrifices, but if you truly want it badly enough you can do whatever you want. All it takes is courage.
-Laura
At 10:55 AM,
Anonymous said…
The book is pretty good - it's called "Quarter Life Crisis"...there's a website too http://www.quarterlifecrisis.com/
Jackie - I totally understand...i think that's why I'm going back to school - even though the thought completely freaks me out. Hopefully after going into $100,000 of debt - I'll figure it out! ;)
At 10:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
Damn it - i always forget to sign my name...
That was Anye!
Love ya - MWAH!
At 2:31 PM,
Anonymous said…
Oh the deep questions! Let me tell you - you don't want to work at Starbucks. Sure they look they are having fun and I'm sure they are - but remember that you don't get weekends off, you have to work all different shifts and work holidays too. My cousin's a manager there so I hear how it works from her. I'm sure you weren't super serious, but just so you know. I think that we all need to try and figure out what that thing is in life that might make us happy. And you know what - we don't have to find it right now. I'm hoping that teaching will do that for me but the money sucks! It's always going to be something ya know? And you are learning things now that will hopefully help you down the road. Hang in there and just remember that you're paying the bills and work isn't life - for the most part ;).
xo,
Lynz
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