It's amazing how quickly things get old once your'e over 40.
So about four years ago I enrolled in college. I had been job hunting but hadn't found anything decent. But in March of 2016 I took a job with Volunteer Transportation Center as a dispatcher. Within a year I started doing data entry full time for them. I worked there for nearly four years before the constraints of a non-profit, the evolution of the programs, and a few other things reached a point that I started seriously job hunting again. I quickly found a position as a legal secretary right close to home. It was great! I got along very well with my boss, with my co-workers, and I was quickly learning the ins and outs of what I was doing. Than something changed. The employer decided to do a partial retirement and my services were no longer needed. He seemed to truly feel remorseful for having uprooted me only to leave me hanging less than two months later, and honestly I completely understand where he was coming from in regards to doing what he needed to do for himself. And though I'd never been fired from a job before, I took it pretty much in stride.
At first I was ready to jump right back into something new, but as things sunk in I realized that I'd really started such a new chapter in my life and I should make the most of it. I don't want to lock myself into some other job that a *maybe* will like, punching someone else's time clock and hoping that things go better than the last time. I was planning for retirement and looking for something to get me there, but maybe the journey isn't just about putting my head down and powering through it. Maybe the journey doesn't have to suck. So with that in mind, I'm going to go back to the beginning of this Unit and go back to school. I'll be 50'ish by the time I get out, but honestly that's not old and leaves a solid 15+ years before I can collect Social Security (at 67).
So far my thoughts are to focus on LBGTQ+ and Couple's Counseling....I've really got to get over to admissions and chat with someone and really hammer the details out. It's February now, so there's no screaming rush. I might have to do things online....which I'm unsure about but I may have to go that route to get what I want. So be it.
Onward and Upward.
