I had a classmate ask me today how I decided on going for a Business Management Degree.  He is just a 20 year old kid who is starting community college. I told him that I worked for several years and figured out what skills come naturally to me.  Then I went back to school and just knew what I have a knack for.  He said that was the best idea that he had heard of.  I can't believe someone else has never said that to him before!

This also makes me feel that someone has failed this kid.  My mother had always asked me what I thought I wanted to do. She told me to pick something that I liked to do and go to school for it.  I knew that I liked to cook a lot, so off I went to culinary school.  Well that lasted not long at all.  I got to school and found out that I would never have a cushy 9-5 schedule.  I would work long, odd hours.  I knew that I would never have a normal life if I choose this path... so I bolted from that idea quickly.  To this day, I still love to cook for my family and friends, but I will just keep it to them.  I never want cooking to feel like a job.

When I moved back to Colorado in 2006 I started working retail.  I quickly discovered that it came naturally to me, I loved having sales goals and fun customers.  I also quickly moved up to an assistant manager, then to a store manager.  I loved being responsible for making sale goals and training new employees.  Supervision is not for everyone, but I know it's for me.  I liked the long hours and responsibility.  I did leave retail to experience other options though.  I had too many people tell me I needed to try other things before I settle in retail.  

So off I went to a completely different field... medical.  I became a receptionist at an internists clinic.  I loved that everything was new and challenging to me.  I learned as much as I could in that position.  I really liked the position, just not the company that I worked for.  I wasn't sure if the medical field was really for me, so I once again took a chance and tried another field.. banking.  I tried banking for a year, but realized it was ok, but not challenging enough for me.  I missed the excitement of deadlines, or a busy doctor's office.  This made me go back to the medical field, and I am still in it today.  I have worked everything from billing, financing, scheduling and front desk in the medical scene.  I feel very comfortable here, but know that I would like to combine my love for the medical field and management.  Hopefully someday I could be an office manager at a practice, or even be a team lead at a hospital.     Jobs always change, but I feel like I know what I am good at for once.. 

Maybe I should just give my classmate my blog link and this will help him out.  :)

Growing Up

First note in this blog. I love all of my friends and wouldn't want them to change a thing about them.  This has nothing to do with you, but everything to do with me.   I have realized something in the last few months. It's also really hard to admit.... I have started to turn into an adult.  Sometimes I wonder where that girl in her early twenties was going?

I have felt torn for awhile now.  I loved running around all night with my friends and drinking and dancing.  I used to love eating a hot dog at 2 am from a street vendor.  I used to drive home from a fun night out when the sun was rising.  I will never regret any of those times.  I have just started realizing that I'm not really sure if I like to do those things anymore.  My idea of a night out now is going to grab a beer with a friend and catch up.  A good night out would be dressing up and going to have dinner at a nice restaurant .  I also like the idea of getting home before midnight so I can still get up at a decent hour the next morning.  I actually look forward on weekends to getting up around 7, cleaning the house while I sip on some coffee.  Or getting up early to do homework, or make a great breakfast.  

Now my friends will say that I am always known as the party girl of group and the one who always had a date to run off to.  I loved having that life.  Some people may think my behavioral changes are because I have met a man and want to be serious with him.  In all honestly, there is some truth to that.  He is all that I have been looking for in a partner, and he does make me want to settle down.  I also look at it from another prospective, if I will still single right now, would I still be feeling this way.  I would have to say yes. I was burned out on dating and wasting my energy on that.  I also know that I was drinking too much when I would go out and knew that I needed to slow that down.  

The main reason I have the desire to grow-up is for my health.  I want to have a healthy body and active lifestyle for many, many years.  I know that I am thin and fit and this doesn't have much to do with this.  I want to be healthy on the inside.  I want to get enough sleep every night so I feel good the next day.  I want to drink less alcohol.  I also want to protect my body, so I can have a baby when I want to. I have started loving yoga again, and that entertains me until summer hiking.

Now, this doesn't mean that I won't go out and not have fun.  It just means that I would rather go bowling instead of clubbing, watching a movie at home, instead of a crazy night out.  I haven't lost complete lust for craziness and fun, I just feel like I can get it from other ways now.