Last week I had a bit of an epiphany. I realized I don't like Human Resources. I've never really enjoyed any of my HR jobs, equating to 7 years of wondering what the heck I could do about my misery. The only thing that keeps me coming back are the people I work with, emphasis on coworkers not managers. I would spend hours at work and at home trawling the HR help wanted boards, looking for anything that could be even remotely better than where I'm at now. So, on one of these trawls, I randomly decided to look at writing jobs and a strange thing happened. I got excited about the jobs. Reading the job descriptions was like opening the flood gates of possibility.
I posted on Facebook about my liberating moment and asked what people thought I should do. Almost unanimously the answer was teaching. I laughed at each response, knowing this was something I have always wanted to do. My mom cried foul almost immediately, citing the poor treatment of teachers and poor status of the state budget. She's biased, no doubt, by her own bad experiences in the profession. My dad has always supported the idea, saying he thought I would be a great teacher. From a guy who doesn't say much, that support really means a lot. But teaching isn't in my future just yet. Writing, however, seems to be calling my name. I figure the best way to explore my opportunities was to get back to my blog. I'm also in the process of setting up an Examiner.com profile as a San Diego Workplace Issues Examiner, showcasing a series of articles offering career advice for the millennial generation. I've got a lot to learn and plenty of room to grow, especially now that I've found a new path to take.
If I've learned one thing from this, its do what makes you happy and the harder parts of life seem to get just a little bit easier! Go for it.
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