(This is the blog entry I would have wrote yesterday, had I gotten around to it!)
What do you want to do?
I was watching the movie "Good Will Hunting" as I was getting my day started on Saturday. There's a part in the movie where Robin Williams, playing the therapist, asks Will the above question. I realized that at the age of 31, it's a question I haven't ever been able to answer myself. I've always, in a way, envied people who just flat out knew what they wanted to do. Take my sister in law for example, she wanted to be a veterinarian and didn't think twice about eight years of schooling plus internships to get there and seven years later she still seems content with her choice.
I'm not someone who is motivated by money so that hasn't ever played a role in drawing me toward a career path. I've always felt that work is something I have to do to pay the bills but for me, fulfillment comes from where I choose to spend my time outside of work. I like my job well enough (administrative assistant for a crisis intervention program) and I think I'm pretty good at what I do. The pay is not great, but I like my co-workers and I like that the general purpose of the program is to help people. I've been there 8+ years and have stayed that long because my hours are flexible, I get 5 weeks paid vacation per year and for the most part I supervise myself. The only thing that is really missing for me is a feeling that I'm working to my potential.
At the end of my year in 6th grade, I asked my teacher to sign my journal that all my friends had signed too. She wrote a nice long paragraph, of which I remember one sentence..."You are a bright girl, you just don't apply yourself well." So now I'm wondering, all these years later if that is still case. The problem is I still come up with no definitive answer when I ask myself, "what do you want to do?"
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Hope. I am looking for someone to carry on the genealogy of the Pratt family. It pays nothing, but it does have excitement in that everytime you come up with a certificate documenting the birth, marriage, and death of an ancester there is excitement. As a geologist it is sort of like finding a fossil that lived illions of years ago and now I am looking at in an outcrop and trying to identify it! I haven't found a relative (your generation) yet who will carry on the tradition! You are in the heart of all these town clerks' offices in CT and MA. Am I rambling or what? I guess I'm waiting for the Cowboys to play tonight.
I had a business trip this week and was reading the airline magazine when I came across an article that made me think about this blog. It's about a young man searching for his passion, not just a career. Apparantly it has generated a lot of interest. Here's a link to the website One Week Job
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