So I now have a job working at the BP across the road. I'm into my first week of non-training shifts and I like it quite a lot. It's the type of job where I get a lot of work to do over the course of a 6 hour shift and I get to do it at my own pace unsupervised. I like it, and it pays pretty well. Centrelink are writing me hate mail over it, but nobody really cares what those idiots say now do they.
I'm writing this after a surprise graveyard shift (12am-6am) so people will forgive any dislexia caused by randomness.
I've been giving my life a good thinking about over the past few months. I've had a look at where I am, where I want to be and where I am headed and found that once again, all of those tracks end up at different places. My life this year has been... well... mixed... It's been a day to day existence, a plethora of moods, swelling from excrutiatingly happy to downright depressed at times. On some deep thinking, the career path I've chosen, teaching, mightn't be right for me, but I'll get to that in a moment, and looking at myself in ten years time makes me want to cry... Once again, I'll elaborate in a bit.
All in all it's been a hectic couple of months, but the improvements that I've been wroughting along the way are actually all beginning to manifest at the moment.
For starters, I've fallen in with a new group of friends that I've met through the Events Management at the library. They are fantastic, and I'm proud to call all of them friends of mine. I have a strong feeling that at least some of them are likely to be lasting friendships as well.
Secondly, doing all this work with Kids and with Youth Events during the past year has made me realise that while I have a real talent for teaching, I dont really wanna be doing that in five years time. On discussing this with both my grandmother and a couple of careers advisors out at the university, I managed to realise that a degree in Social Work will allow me to work with the youth of the country here in Australia while I am young and I can return to teaching them when I get a little older. It makes sense in a nutshell and I explain things better in person anyway.
I just lost about 50% of the post because my computer hates people... so I'm going to go to bed. I'll try and remember what I posted when I live again, which wont be for a while, but please, all of you stay safe and be well.
"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it
seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that
is just the place and time when the tide will turn."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
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