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As in, what the fuck am I doing with my life? And this icon is rather appropriate (and damn if the book it's from isn't appropriate, too).
Monday I'm going to the NC Association of Pharmacists annual meeting, in part to get CE (which carries over into next year), but mainly because I want to talk to the exhibitors and see if any of them are hiring. I can also find out more about the various committees, two of which sound interesting to me.
I joked to myself a few weeks ago that if I didn't get anywhere after the meeting, I'd consider going back to school.
I read a letter to the editor from one of the professors at UNC's department of city and regional planning in support of the transit referendum, so I looked at their website. It sounds really interesting, but what kind of jobs can I do with that? I don't know. (There's also a dual degree program with SPH in the health behaviors department, which is also relevant to my interests.) I love cities, I love public transit, I love smart growth; I'm not interested in relocating anywhere within the US to get a job doing that. (Which is kind of my main problem I guess.)
If I wanted to follow my interests, I'd go study history, but in order to get into the history graduate program, you have to have a background in history, which I don't. I'd want to study 20th century European (specifically German) history, though I don't know if I'd want to focus on WW1 or the Cold War. But to do that, I need (probably) to have studied modern European history. You have to write an analytical essay in your application :P
And there's no way in god's greenest hell I'm doing another bachelor's degree.
So, I'm 36 years old, highly educated, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
Monday I'm going to the NC Association of Pharmacists annual meeting, in part to get CE (which carries over into next year), but mainly because I want to talk to the exhibitors and see if any of them are hiring. I can also find out more about the various committees, two of which sound interesting to me.
I joked to myself a few weeks ago that if I didn't get anywhere after the meeting, I'd consider going back to school.
I read a letter to the editor from one of the professors at UNC's department of city and regional planning in support of the transit referendum, so I looked at their website. It sounds really interesting, but what kind of jobs can I do with that? I don't know. (There's also a dual degree program with SPH in the health behaviors department, which is also relevant to my interests.) I love cities, I love public transit, I love smart growth; I'm not interested in relocating anywhere within the US to get a job doing that. (Which is kind of my main problem I guess.)
If I wanted to follow my interests, I'd go study history, but in order to get into the history graduate program, you have to have a background in history, which I don't. I'd want to study 20th century European (specifically German) history, though I don't know if I'd want to focus on WW1 or the Cold War. But to do that, I need (probably) to have studied modern European history. You have to write an analytical essay in your application :P
And there's no way in god's greenest hell I'm doing another bachelor's degree.
So, I'm 36 years old, highly educated, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
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Date: 2012-10-27 05:11 pm (UTC)From:One of my main problems is that I'm interested in EVERYTHING. I think X is cool so I read some books on it, then go on to new shiny Y and on and on. I keep coming back to two things: recent German history and infectious disease epidemiology, which there's not really a way to combine into a single thing. So because of my background training, the latter is more viable as a career path, while the former remains something I check stacks of books about from the library.
But I love cities and public transit and smart growth and urban infill. Jobs doing that pay way less than I'd make as a pharmacist, and, having grown up working poor, taking a lower wage job makes me squirmy. That's why I studied chemistry rather than straight up German (which was my double major) (also I don't like high school students, and the prospect of academia didn't thrill me).
So now I'm going, ooh, I could see about applying to a German PhD program. Shoot me.