Excuse me sir, can you spare a quarter?

I am so...unbelievably...lost...

My plan, for all of my college experience, was to finish my B.A. and then go on to graduate school. I always wanted to teach college. Scratch that. I just always wanted to teach in general. I sat amongst the other political science students, knowing that they wanted to go on to become the future lawyers of America (at least most of them) and felt smug knowing that I wanted something more lofty. And, of course, something that would mean I could die with my soul intact. Which a career in law would never be able to provide.

Then, once upon an (unhappy) time...

A professor sat me down and told me about the stainlessly steel cold world of academia. How grueling it is. How competitive. How intensive. How unforgiving. How unloyal.

I became utterly and completely demoralized. I abandoned my lifelong dream and graduated, with no idea what to do and no options.

Now I sit here, on a wooden bench in the middle of the night scanning various career oriented websites with no idea what sort of skill set I possess, trying hard to ignore the 'hospitality' tab on the JOBS LISTED margin. I know it is the only thing I have any experience in. I am beginning to panic. I only have so much money saved and I'm clueless on where to embark next. I am truly getting scared.

What the fuck?!?!?!

2 comments:

Dan August 3, 2009 11:43 PM  

You're focusing on the trees and not the forest. Get inspired again. When you do this time, don't let anyone take your dream. Your voice and thought should be first place; everything else heard background noise.

Rule #54: Bears keep it cool.
Rule #12: Bears take what's theirs (despite what non-bear mentors say)

Misty Dawn Smith August 5, 2009 4:49 AM  

Rule #87: Bears don't abandon their dreams.

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