Wes has been home for a week now and it is so nice to have him back. The best part about it is to be able to get hugs and give hugs as much as I want. I know that those of you that know me well, know that I am not a huggy sort of person, but I think that I just save all my hugginess for Wes and I have been deprived for almost 7 months. I am pretty sure he feels the same way since he generally won’t let me go once he gets a hold of me. But I won’t sicken you anymore with mushy details.
I mentioned in my last blog that I was going to see a career counselor. I have had the initial meeting with her and on Monday I am going to have the first working meeting with her. In the mean time, she gave me many pages of questionnaires to fill out and some writing assignments. I thought that these were going to be easy, but that was not the case. It has taken me two weeks to get through them and even then, I am not completely satisfied with my answers. You would think that it would be easy to talk about yourself.
I mentioned in my last blog that I was going to see a career counselor. I have had the initial meeting with her and on Monday I am going to have the first working meeting with her. In the mean time, she gave me many pages of questionnaires to fill out and some writing assignments. I thought that these were going to be easy, but that was not the case. It has taken me two weeks to get through them and even then, I am not completely satisfied with my answers. You would think that it would be easy to talk about yourself.
These are some of the questions that stumped me.
List your top ten professional, personal and relationship goals. Sounds easy right? Try it. I was expecting to be confused on the professional goals, since that is why I am seeing her in the first place. Since my personal goals (writing and art) are currently very interconnected with my possible professional goals, it was difficult to sort them out. And relationship goals…eeergh??? I have none, other than not fight with my friends or family. That alone is a tall order when it comes to certain family members.
Ok, another stumper question. What have been some of your favorite jobs? Well…looking back…I don’t know if I have ever really liked any of my jobs. What stand out are moments at a job or working with particular people at a job, but rarely the job itself. It was just the backdrop for the coworker interactions. So does that mean I have been doing the wrong jobs my whole life? I mentioned this to the girls the other night and I think I depressed them a little when they looked back at their past jobs and didn’t find any that they liked either. I think our generation has been raised under the delusion that we will find a job that we like and that work will not really be work. “Work” is a job for some other poor shmuck.
I was also asked to list things that I would have not yet tried, but think I would be good at. Well, as long as it doesn’t involve math or hand/eye coordination, I think I will be capable of doing the task. However, that doesn’t mean that I will like it or that I won’t let the inner critic loose to wreck havoc on my new found skill.
In the end, I think I put more flippant answers that are meant to deflect that I should have. Sometimes, I just didn’t have the answers.
I also had a writing assignment. I was to visualize a day in my dream life 5 years from now, and 10y, 20y, 30y. This was really hard. The biggest difficulty was the idea of children. I still, at almost 30, have no idea if I want kids. Some days I do and some days I don’t. Imagine trying to plot out your dream life not knowing if there are going to be kids. I ended up writing out two possible dream lives, kids and kids not included. What I learned from this is that I want to become a recluse and stay in my little corner of the world most of the time. I guess my introverted nature is asserting itself…hhhhmmm. I also had to name the children in my dream life (since I couldn’t call them child 1 and child 2 and still maintain a realistic quality to the assignment). You should have seen the look of sheer panic on Wes’s face when I told him that we were having two kids named Lilly and Eddie. Ha!!! I also learned that whatever my future life holds, I don’t want stress. I want a peaceful, quiet life. Occasional stress is Ok and even a challenge, but the day to day life should be quiet. Sorry to those of you waiting for the crazy girl to make a comeback and dance on a bar at a nightclub or climb trees while drinking. I think she has retired. All of her escapades will be confined to the literary page…where fact and fiction can be properly blurred.
On the domestic front, we have installed track lighting in the kitchen and lights under the counter. It’s so much nicer than the old fluorescent lights with half the bulbs burned out. See the pictures below. :)
List your top ten professional, personal and relationship goals. Sounds easy right? Try it. I was expecting to be confused on the professional goals, since that is why I am seeing her in the first place. Since my personal goals (writing and art) are currently very interconnected with my possible professional goals, it was difficult to sort them out. And relationship goals…eeergh??? I have none, other than not fight with my friends or family. That alone is a tall order when it comes to certain family members.
Ok, another stumper question. What have been some of your favorite jobs? Well…looking back…I don’t know if I have ever really liked any of my jobs. What stand out are moments at a job or working with particular people at a job, but rarely the job itself. It was just the backdrop for the coworker interactions. So does that mean I have been doing the wrong jobs my whole life? I mentioned this to the girls the other night and I think I depressed them a little when they looked back at their past jobs and didn’t find any that they liked either. I think our generation has been raised under the delusion that we will find a job that we like and that work will not really be work. “Work” is a job for some other poor shmuck.
I was also asked to list things that I would have not yet tried, but think I would be good at. Well, as long as it doesn’t involve math or hand/eye coordination, I think I will be capable of doing the task. However, that doesn’t mean that I will like it or that I won’t let the inner critic loose to wreck havoc on my new found skill.
In the end, I think I put more flippant answers that are meant to deflect that I should have. Sometimes, I just didn’t have the answers.
I also had a writing assignment. I was to visualize a day in my dream life 5 years from now, and 10y, 20y, 30y. This was really hard. The biggest difficulty was the idea of children. I still, at almost 30, have no idea if I want kids. Some days I do and some days I don’t. Imagine trying to plot out your dream life not knowing if there are going to be kids. I ended up writing out two possible dream lives, kids and kids not included. What I learned from this is that I want to become a recluse and stay in my little corner of the world most of the time. I guess my introverted nature is asserting itself…hhhhmmm. I also had to name the children in my dream life (since I couldn’t call them child 1 and child 2 and still maintain a realistic quality to the assignment). You should have seen the look of sheer panic on Wes’s face when I told him that we were having two kids named Lilly and Eddie. Ha!!! I also learned that whatever my future life holds, I don’t want stress. I want a peaceful, quiet life. Occasional stress is Ok and even a challenge, but the day to day life should be quiet. Sorry to those of you waiting for the crazy girl to make a comeback and dance on a bar at a nightclub or climb trees while drinking. I think she has retired. All of her escapades will be confined to the literary page…where fact and fiction can be properly blurred.
On the domestic front, we have installed track lighting in the kitchen and lights under the counter. It’s so much nicer than the old fluorescent lights with half the bulbs burned out. See the pictures below. :)
Track lighting
Lights under the cabinets
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