career day
Oct. 7th, 2003 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightbluegirlOh Man.
Man oh Man oh MAN.
My father just emailed me to invite me to a career day he's having. It's on October 25th at 1:30 pm. He said he "had a revelation" that kids in high school just don't know what they want to do in University, and so hes having an "easy" career day for the kids, where the professionals and the kids hang out in a low key setting (no us vs them), and he asked me to be one of the professionals.
!
I REALLY want to do this. I want to talk to high school kids, I want to tell them what it's REALLY like, I want to tell them what no one else will tell them, dammit. I really want to be a part of this.
But I hadn't been planning to go from Toronto to St. Catharines until later in the day (the career day starts at 1:30).
In my dream, my Toronto friends (well, unfortunately minus Cam, who will be visiting his family that weekend) would think it'd be lots of fun to come to St. Catharines with me. Suzanne and Aaron, for example, could also be great professionals. Then we could hang out at a coffee shop or something for a couple of hours, then they could go, and I'd spend the rest of the weekend with my family, as planned. Wouldn't that rock??
*sigh*
I wonder if I can make it happen. Suzanne is poor, and Aaron recalcitrant, sometimes.
Hmmm.
I'm going to try, anyway, I think.
This is SO close to those things I have planned in life. I want so much to do it now.
Have you forgotten?
I NEED to be a therapist. I want to be there for teens and kids in particular, because dammit, adults LIE. And think that kids are STUPID. And forget what it's like. I haven't forgotten yet. I don't want to forget. I want to help. (However, I also want to be, in particular, a therapist for those with alternative lifestyles. I mentioned that, right?) And of course, I also NEED to open a restaurant/cafe.
I was watching a thing the other night about "How Canadians save money". One section was about a woman who used to be an investment banker, who realized one night at 3am, as she was baking to relax, that she had it all wrong, and she should be a baker for her job, and invest on the side. And that's what she did, since she had investments that she used to finance it. And I was SO jealous! I mean, I'm going to going to GOING TO DO THIS. But man. It's not like I have investments, or even savings.
*sigh*
Opening a cafe will take a while. But it will happen. And there WILL be a an office on the side of it, that I use for therapy-ing. Oh yes, it will.
Yet another reason why I need to live a long time. Because right now, I see myself going to school in several years, then I have to get THROUGH school, then start practicing, then have a baby, then when the baby is 5 or so, THEN start the cafe. It's all planned, don't you know. Oh yeah, and have the house of my dreams, with a great big garden in the back, and a huge pantry with jams and jellies and canned things I made with my own two hands in them, a mosaic-ed walkway up to the front door, and each bed with at least one quilt I made with my own hands.
Oh yeah. LOTS of time.
Anyway. Soon. Still working at the debt reduction. Then the savings, and making sure Andrew has enough money to finish school, then saving enough money for MY school. Then I can start school (which won't be a full 4 years - either 2 or 3, depending on how I go about it), and when he finishes school, he can get a job and support us and start the savings again.
The quilting, sewing and canning wait only for a sewing machine and next canning season.
The baby, contrary to my mother's wishes, will come LATER.
Man oh Man oh MAN.
My father just emailed me to invite me to a career day he's having. It's on October 25th at 1:30 pm. He said he "had a revelation" that kids in high school just don't know what they want to do in University, and so hes having an "easy" career day for the kids, where the professionals and the kids hang out in a low key setting (no us vs them), and he asked me to be one of the professionals.
!
I REALLY want to do this. I want to talk to high school kids, I want to tell them what it's REALLY like, I want to tell them what no one else will tell them, dammit. I really want to be a part of this.
But I hadn't been planning to go from Toronto to St. Catharines until later in the day (the career day starts at 1:30).
In my dream, my Toronto friends (well, unfortunately minus Cam, who will be visiting his family that weekend) would think it'd be lots of fun to come to St. Catharines with me. Suzanne and Aaron, for example, could also be great professionals. Then we could hang out at a coffee shop or something for a couple of hours, then they could go, and I'd spend the rest of the weekend with my family, as planned. Wouldn't that rock??
*sigh*
I wonder if I can make it happen. Suzanne is poor, and Aaron recalcitrant, sometimes.
Hmmm.
I'm going to try, anyway, I think.
This is SO close to those things I have planned in life. I want so much to do it now.
Have you forgotten?
I NEED to be a therapist. I want to be there for teens and kids in particular, because dammit, adults LIE. And think that kids are STUPID. And forget what it's like. I haven't forgotten yet. I don't want to forget. I want to help. (However, I also want to be, in particular, a therapist for those with alternative lifestyles. I mentioned that, right?) And of course, I also NEED to open a restaurant/cafe.
I was watching a thing the other night about "How Canadians save money". One section was about a woman who used to be an investment banker, who realized one night at 3am, as she was baking to relax, that she had it all wrong, and she should be a baker for her job, and invest on the side. And that's what she did, since she had investments that she used to finance it. And I was SO jealous! I mean, I'm going to going to GOING TO DO THIS. But man. It's not like I have investments, or even savings.
*sigh*
Opening a cafe will take a while. But it will happen. And there WILL be a an office on the side of it, that I use for therapy-ing. Oh yes, it will.
Yet another reason why I need to live a long time. Because right now, I see myself going to school in several years, then I have to get THROUGH school, then start practicing, then have a baby, then when the baby is 5 or so, THEN start the cafe. It's all planned, don't you know. Oh yeah, and have the house of my dreams, with a great big garden in the back, and a huge pantry with jams and jellies and canned things I made with my own two hands in them, a mosaic-ed walkway up to the front door, and each bed with at least one quilt I made with my own hands.
Oh yeah. LOTS of time.
Anyway. Soon. Still working at the debt reduction. Then the savings, and making sure Andrew has enough money to finish school, then saving enough money for MY school. Then I can start school (which won't be a full 4 years - either 2 or 3, depending on how I go about it), and when he finishes school, he can get a job and support us and start the savings again.
The quilting, sewing and canning wait only for a sewing machine and next canning season.
The baby, contrary to my mother's wishes, will come LATER.
