Thursday, October 13, 2011

What To Do...What To Do?

I've spent the last year trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.  Since I have been getting older (as opposed to younger) and my back has been getting worse, I decided that going back to nursing was, sadly, probably not going to be the career of my future.

I thought about what I was good at, what I liked to do and that question that your guidance counselor in high school asks you about 'if you could do any job for free, what would it be?'  Well, since I've been both a wife and mother (one I was successful at, the other...not so much), for free for going on two decades, I realized that baby-making was not really a feasible goal ~ having just turned 40 and all.

Thus, I hearkened back to my crafting roots and started pulling out all of my old projects.  Half-ripped out afghans of hideous colors, beautiful cross-stitch pieces, knitting projects that had been packed and promptly forgotten and I realized that I had found my job Nirvana.