Take Two

Sometimes I get really frustrated because I'm passionate about a lot of things. If someone was to tell me this I'd think "how can someone have too many passions?" I mean, this makes sense if they all tie into each other somehow. Like, if someone was passionate about swimming and running they could get into triathlon and just pick up the cycling. Or if someone was interested in both health and cooking they could become a nutritionist. Creating a career from a passion is something I dream of, however I keep changing my mind.

In high school it was running and photography. I used to have dreams of becoming fashion or lifestyle photographer so when I started college, I declared photography as a major. I then got a gig taking pictures for the school's newspaper, but I was never  published. I wasn't too into this whole idea so one day I thought about how I'd love to become a teacher. So I changed my major to Special Education. The classes were great, my instructors were inspiring, and at age 19, this is what I was going to do with my life. I was going to have a classroom and I was going to be one who lived up to the quote of "those who can, teach". After two semesters life happened and I ended up back at home with my parents and worked as a daycare teacher for two year olds. It was here that I was talking to a coworker about how I felt that being a teacher wasn't really something I was passionate about anymore and she was telling me about how her daughter was at school in a Speech Pathology program. My coworker was sharing how the income for people in this field is high and that people are needed to fill these jobs. I went home and researched the field and thought I'd go back to school and declare this as my major for the final time. I was in the program for a semester before my family moved to New Hampshire. I took some classes online but work got too crazy so I dropped them. It's been a year since I've been in school and as of right now, I'm not looking into going back to learning Speech Pathology.

Also within the last two years, I've gone back and forth between both running and triathlon. This isn't as big a dilemma as figuring out a career, but it is frustrating none the less. Triathlon's expensive and you can't do it without a bike, a pool to swim in, or races to enter. Running is much cheaper in this regard. All you really need are running shoes, shorts, and race fees are sometimes about a third of a triathlon. I can always do one or the other whenever I want. But as I've written before, I've been leaning more toward focusing on running. This was great until I got sick and stayed six for 3 weeks and when work got stressful. I plan to pick running back up again soon, slowly. I am also planning on getting this blog going again too. I'm thinking that maybe I can channel all those crazy passions I have into one thing. So, here's take two and hopefully no take three.