Work has been fine. The company is cool and my co-workers are awesome. The job itself is okay. I don't know. It's not a career. It's really just a placeholder job to pay the bills until I find something better. I really need to pay off some bills, bulk up the savings account and find a place to live.
I'm almost 30. I feel like I should have figured things out by now. My 10 year high school reunion is in a month, and I really don't have any accomplishments to talk about. I look at my classmates posts on facebook and I see PhD candidates, teachers, doctors, writers, and world travelers. I wish I had something to show for the past 10 years.
I went to college, got a bachelor's degree, and worked in a few different jobs that built up my skillset a bit. That's all well and good, but I wish I had accomplished more. I thought by now I'd have worked in the same place for a while, and moved up rather than taken on a bunch of random entry level jobs. I thought I'd have a house by now. I thought I'd be in a happy, healthy relationship, maybe even a kid on the way. I thought I'd have a few stamps on my passport by now. (Canada refuses to stamp, and Mexico doesn't care.)
Oh well. I'm in my late 20s and I have a supportive family and great friends. Things like that make me happy. I went out for scorpion bowls and Chinese food with my co-workers the other night. That was fun.
I've been thinking about grad school again. Since I was a junior in college, I've wanted to work in a college. So many college jobs require a Master's in higher education administration. I wonder if I could find a job in a college that would allow me to travel the world a bit. That would be the ideal situation.
Every few years or so, I go back to the idea of going back to school and getting my Master's. It would be a huge undertaking, and quite honestly, a financial burden that I really can't afford right now. Then I think that to not do something about it would be cheating on my life goals.
I guess it's just something I'll have to think about some more.
