In a matter of years the handwork from college is going to fade and soon I will enter the working world. I'll just be another average person waking up Monday morning to be at work by 8AM or - maybe not. Figuring out what you want to do for the rest of your life is difficult as a young adult. I have learned to seek new opportunities, adapt, and learn. After I had returned from living abroad, I knew I would never be content with a position where I could not travel. I had come to realize that I would not be satisfied if I wasn't able to seek new places, meet new people in countries I had never been to. I have essentially given up something I'm talented at, in order to satisfy my passion for exploration.
I am slowly figuring out that it is more important to focus on the next ten to fifteen years of my life, instead of focusing on what I need to do for the rest of my life. I am setting high expectations for myself to gain the experiences I want and to challenge myself in various foreign situations, but it is also a journey to get to that point. I am still in school gaining "knowledge" in my specific career field to help make myself more employable but as my Winterim class begins, I think to myself: I can't wait to travel.
"There is a whole world full of opportunity and if you don't take a chance - you never know what you'll find." -ACL Scotland 2014
