Let's face it: I love adventure and I won't be happy if my life is calm and boring. I don't want my life to be the typical, generic story: grow up, go to college, work, start a family, retire, and then DIE. If my life were like that, I'd kill myself before I'd even start a family. Today, I researched jobs that would allow me to travel. The jobs I liked best were:
1. Au Pair (nanny) for kids around the world.
2. Working on cruise ships. (Now that...I like).
3. A travel writer (hmm...it's hard to make money doing that).
4. A teacher for an international school.
5. Peace Corps (I like that too).
6. Work for a Non-Governmental Organization (very competitive).
7. A travel nurse.
I really like the idea of being an Au Pair when I graduate. I'll be young with a college degree ad hopefully know a foreign language like French. During college, I could work summers on a cruise ship (unless I have DVR).
But...I found another marvelous option: being a volunteer crew member aboard a sailboat. I have my license so I might as well use it for something! Besides, how cool would it be to say that I sailed to Australia or some ridiculous place like that? If I work out medications, it's definetly do-able.
Sigh...I'm already dreaming about doing that.
I also want to see if I can get a job as a janitor or something in Antartica. I hear it's REALLY hard to get jobs there, but hey-McCurdo Station needs to get clean somehow. It's not like the important scientists are going to be the housekeepers. I'm going to keep exploring options though.
Still...Wouldn't those jobs be awesome?
Monday, March 12, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Decisions, Decisions...
I'm sick with (possibly) the flu and I'm pretty much comatose. All day I've been watching TV and blowing gunk out of my nose. It SUCKS. I'm also trying to study for Academic Bowl as well.
Last night, I had the WEIRDEST dreams too. I knew I was dreaming and since I am obsessed with lucid dreaming, I was trying to alter it like in Inception, but I could only alter it in a few ways. I suppose that's one good thing about being sick, I get cool dreams!
But that's not really what this post is about. I've had a lot of time to think (since I can't really do anything else) and I've realized that I have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up." I love to write, but how many writers actually make it? Not a lot. I have a scholarship to a college of science and I've put down my major as Biochemistry since I've always wanted to be a doctor growing up. Now that I think about it though, I think I would like to be an environmental scientist and save the sea turtles or be a naturalist. I've also considered nursing and teaching.
I think that I'm going to be one of those people that spontaneously join the circus after college or something. I have all of these plans, like joining the peace corps, hiking the Appalacian Trail, going to the Univerity of Edinburgh for a summer and getting a certificate in Parapsychology, and going on a road trip across America to visit haunted houses and amusement parks.
I've always loved to learn and as a result, I have so many passions and I have no idea if that's a good thing. Does it make me unstable? Restless? Even dangerous? I don't know. Right now though, it just makes decisons even harder.
Decisions, decisions...
Last night, I had the WEIRDEST dreams too. I knew I was dreaming and since I am obsessed with lucid dreaming, I was trying to alter it like in Inception, but I could only alter it in a few ways. I suppose that's one good thing about being sick, I get cool dreams!
But that's not really what this post is about. I've had a lot of time to think (since I can't really do anything else) and I've realized that I have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up." I love to write, but how many writers actually make it? Not a lot. I have a scholarship to a college of science and I've put down my major as Biochemistry since I've always wanted to be a doctor growing up. Now that I think about it though, I think I would like to be an environmental scientist and save the sea turtles or be a naturalist. I've also considered nursing and teaching.
I think that I'm going to be one of those people that spontaneously join the circus after college or something. I have all of these plans, like joining the peace corps, hiking the Appalacian Trail, going to the Univerity of Edinburgh for a summer and getting a certificate in Parapsychology, and going on a road trip across America to visit haunted houses and amusement parks.
I've always loved to learn and as a result, I have so many passions and I have no idea if that's a good thing. Does it make me unstable? Restless? Even dangerous? I don't know. Right now though, it just makes decisons even harder.
Decisions, decisions...
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