What am I gonna Do!?

What am I gonna do!?

Or, rather, what do I WANT to do?

Ive been thinking alot about what career I want to shoot for lately. A lot of the reason is Ive been absolutely hating work lately. I mean, its to the point where Im wearing all black and referring to myself as the Angel of Darkness. Not really, but I seriously I walk around pissed off all the time. It occurred to me the other day, that even though I realize this office is a particular environment, if Im not careful, Ill wake up in 20 years and discover Ive become the people I hate. Always sitting around, pissy, talking as if I really absolutely dont care what anyone else thinks. Im halfway there now.

Now, the plan has always been that I would go back to school and finish my english degree. Im good at english, if you will, and Im interested in how language can be used. But there is a lot of boring work that goes along with english. With anything, I suppose. And, not to insult my friends with english degrees (we are family), but majoring in english isnt exactly a career. Once I got my degree, what would I do with it? I honestly have no idea. My friend Sarah, who has a dual degree in History and Spanish, put it best:

"as someone with a liberal arts degree in history and spanish, i can tell you that i loved the research and writing, but without more school, the only career-esque thing i can do is speak spanish a lot. "

Also, the other day, I was thinking about how cool it would be to be an expert in something. "You need to know about 16th century pre-cambrian columns? Chris Duncan is the man for you!" I could get an english degree, and do rather well, if I applied myself, but I honestly dont think I would do better than your average student.

So, Ive been thinking about alternate paths for the first time in like, five years. Its so easy, when you arent actively doing anything, to decide "Thats what Im going to do, SOMEDAY."
At this point, what Im looking at and thinking about is a health studies degree. My career of choice would be a wellness counselor. Hmmm.

On a side note, I asked my friend Dr Rubin what she knew about being a sex therapist. Since she knows me so well, this was her response:

"Are you thinking of a therapist who works primary with couples and sexually-based issues? Or, the kind of thing that I see on tv about a sexual surrogate; that is; someone who actually has sex with people and calls it therapy?"