Scorpion Bowls, Grad School and More

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.