As I sit here in my pj's writing my second of three essays due for class, I'm happy as a lark! True I'm not yet halfway through this essay and it's due on Friday, but the process itself is great!
Now I'm not at work today, and that makes me wonder how my colleagues are doing. Then I think of a conversation two coworkers were having in which one remarked to the other how awful the job market is in our mini-city. The other, completely content in her career and often spending umpteen hours of personal time on work, had no idea of this. I, on the other hand, am completely aware of it as I'm dissatisfied with what I'm doing. So night after night, morning after morning, I pour through what's available and am almost repulsed that my job is the best paying out there - yet I can't stand what I do. (It makes me feel pretty ungrateful, actually.)
All I want is a job where I'm happy, productive, look forward to going to it, and perhaps like it so much that I come home and do more of it! My partner says that I would be a good candidate for a job like Kate Clinton - that would be amazing - but I find the whole process so daunting. I feel like I don't have enough experience, I don't have the right kind of experience, and therefore I'm not worthy of anything but my miserable station.
So my question to the forum is: are we capable of having it all? Is it possible to live in the best of all possible worlds? Or are our lives dictated by some Darwinian principle where I'll be forced to work in customer service until my last breath?
You can do anything that you set your mind to! If you really want a job that you love perhaps you might think about going to college or going back to college.
Hi Elizabeth,
(EXCELLENT name, btw :D) see now here's the hard part, I did go to college for something I loved - two somethings actually: French and Spanish, and I'm going to get my masters in something else I love: lesbian literature - it just feels like the market in my tiny city isn't there. I'm sure relocating would be a great idea, just not sure where to, or if my family would go for it, and all that good stuff. A part of me wonders if I made a bad choice by following my heart - perhaps I should have been more practical...
"drink from that wishing well but may it never quench your thirst" - Indigo Girls
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