With the whirlwind of moving being near an end, my next phase was to decide a very serious path. Do I
A) go back to school to continue my medical degree
or
B) join the theater in the local CC, like I've always wanted to.
This choice has plagued me my whole life, I've taken so many chances with my career and having a stable job just to run off and peruse these "flighty" acting and modeling jobs, hoping that if I just built my resume better I'd snag something better...and I was happy. Happy to live off Ramen, min-wage , live in an apartment that didn't have a working A\C...just to be giving my dreams a chance, but after eight years, my goals have changed.
I wouldn't say I've given up my dreams, but just found an indirect route to try next and I've always been fascinated with Neuropathy, Hemotology, Radiology and I really wanted to be a surgery tech but unfortunately, there are no programs that train for that where I live and so, I chose yet another interesting field.
I start school next month, April 19th, as an X-ray Tech. The school is fairly big, very clean and all the teachers are fully certified, friendly and have a sense of humor. I'm so excited that I'm almost sad that I have to wait so long just to start.
But the its also a good thing, it gives me time to find supplies and wrap my head around what I'm about to put myself though.
The last time I went to school, in 2008, I was studying to be a Medial Transcriptionist, there were problems from the start, even getting admitted was hard because no one can seem to spell or say my first name correctly.
On top of that, I did very well in all my classes but I felt like I could be doing so much more then just typing and filling out reports...I wanted to be more helpful...like directly helpful, not a part of some large cog. The more I learned about the different medical professions, the more it made me wish I was studying something else however, I did always intend on completing school.
What happens next is a flaw in the system, any student who needs x amount of hours for internship cannot graduate until those hours are completed, and you have a limited time window to do this, its usually around 2-3 months after the last school day to find and complete internship before theres just nothing they can do for you...and then you get to pay back $xx,xxxx for literally, nothing.
Like me.
But I put that behind me and I've remained happy, bouncy and optimistic, and I know starting school, getting certified and finally having a real career will be a huge relief and I'm really excited to be taking this step.
Now hopefully my classmates are chilly and I don't have any unwanted attention, I hate having the "no dating" talk.
Must paint...so many blank canvases taunting me..mua ha ha ha O_O;
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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