New journey
May. 4th, 2006 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talyenI've given notice at work.
I'm leaving UMHS, and I'll be starting a new position in Cincinnati in less than three weeks. Wheee! It's very exciting, and fast.
It probably won't hit me until I'm there how much I miss my life in Ann Arbor. Fortunately, it's only a 4 hour trip back (my new apartment is in the city), so I should be able to make the occasional Stilyagi party. Maybe more frequently than I do now! And I'll want to see people when I'm up, and visit my town, as well. And I'll have someone to share the driving.
My next steps will be finding things in Cincinnati to organize, and participate in, similar to Stilyagi, the tri club, the women's social clubs, my co-op community and the landscape club, and something musical. After I move in.
I've been thinking a lot about what I want to be when I grow up.
And I got into IT by accident, just trying to have a job that traveled less. I used to do analytical chemistry. I really bounced around a lot after college, trying to use my Biochem degree, but not knowing what I wanted to use it to do, and not wanting to go back to school until I had a good reason.
I like it when my work has meaning. I like putting together pieces of a puzzle that people give me and completing the picture. I'm good at getting other people to follow up once I find a solution. And I've a gift for finding patterns where others see only random events.
I could be a doctor, but the hours suck during school. So right now I'm leaning toward nurse midwife or nurse practitioner. Both require master's level work. UM has a very good program (duh!), and University of Cincinnati has programs in those, as well. University of Pennsylvania has the best school. I have to go to the library to find out where the best programs are, but right now I'm sure that I can do what I want to do here in Cincinnati, or at UM.
I will have to take undergrad classes for the program, since I never took Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacokinetics, or Nutrition. And I have to work to convince someone that my Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Organic Chemistry are still valid. It's not like the reactions have changed in the past 18 years!
I like having a plan for my life. It goes something like this: get a job I like better. Finance going back to school to get a career that will fulfill me. Also, move near Lisa and see if we can find ways that we can live together and maybe even move toward a *gasp* move-in-permanently thing.
For the first time in my life, I feel like I'm walking deliberately.
Please visit me on my journey.
I'm leaving UMHS, and I'll be starting a new position in Cincinnati in less than three weeks. Wheee! It's very exciting, and fast.
It probably won't hit me until I'm there how much I miss my life in Ann Arbor. Fortunately, it's only a 4 hour trip back (my new apartment is in the city), so I should be able to make the occasional Stilyagi party. Maybe more frequently than I do now! And I'll want to see people when I'm up, and visit my town, as well. And I'll have someone to share the driving.
My next steps will be finding things in Cincinnati to organize, and participate in, similar to Stilyagi, the tri club, the women's social clubs, my co-op community and the landscape club, and something musical. After I move in.
I've been thinking a lot about what I want to be when I grow up.
And I got into IT by accident, just trying to have a job that traveled less. I used to do analytical chemistry. I really bounced around a lot after college, trying to use my Biochem degree, but not knowing what I wanted to use it to do, and not wanting to go back to school until I had a good reason.
I like it when my work has meaning. I like putting together pieces of a puzzle that people give me and completing the picture. I'm good at getting other people to follow up once I find a solution. And I've a gift for finding patterns where others see only random events.
I could be a doctor, but the hours suck during school. So right now I'm leaning toward nurse midwife or nurse practitioner. Both require master's level work. UM has a very good program (duh!), and University of Cincinnati has programs in those, as well. University of Pennsylvania has the best school. I have to go to the library to find out where the best programs are, but right now I'm sure that I can do what I want to do here in Cincinnati, or at UM.
I will have to take undergrad classes for the program, since I never took Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacokinetics, or Nutrition. And I have to work to convince someone that my Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Organic Chemistry are still valid. It's not like the reactions have changed in the past 18 years!
I like having a plan for my life. It goes something like this: get a job I like better. Finance going back to school to get a career that will fulfill me. Also, move near Lisa and see if we can find ways that we can live together and maybe even move toward a *gasp* move-in-permanently thing.
For the first time in my life, I feel like I'm walking deliberately.
Please visit me on my journey.
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:06 pm (UTC)I'm glad you've started walking deliberately. Congrats!
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Date: 2006-05-04 02:11 pm (UTC)(I'm not very good at it yet)
You'll be better at it. Listen! (it's quiet, and sometimes says things you don't want to hear)
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Date: 2006-05-04 08:05 pm (UTC)I'm slowly figuring out my path, looking at taking classesa and possibly going back to school. Seeing other folks do it is inspiring, it is.
Merry travels!