In my oh so brief bio I mention that I am "currently on a break from the working world". Before you think I am a total couch potato I should explain this a bit better.
I quit my job of sixteen years and made the giant move of selling my home and moving in with 'the Gal' this past July. A lot of change in that sentence, hmmh? This is all part of a plan that had its beginning over a year ago. I've wanted to go back to school for a while now and obtain professional credit. I was literally tired of the physical labour I did at the time. My hands were in the early stages of carpal tunnel syndrome and I did not like where that was heading. When I would look at the elder faces of my coworkers, I made a deal with myself. 'I do not want to be doing what I'm doing now in ten years.' That would still put me fifteen years from retirement and a whole lot more bitter if I was still there doing the same old thing. 'the Gal' offered to support me if I wanted to go back to school. I could not ask for better support than that, but I did not want to be a sponge either. I sold my house for got a great price (unheard of now), and it will finance my schooling and expenses for the next two years.
After many discussions about what course I would take (this ranged from Radiological tech. to Chef), I decided that a communications course would suit me best. This is a course I wanted to take about ten years ago, but at the time work got in the way. 'The Gal's' family has been supportive as well which is important. They live next door to us. They are still under the impression that I am beginning my chef course in January. This should all change this weekend.
I've been working the past ten days on my entrance portfolio to the communications course at Red River College in Winnipeg. It should present very well (I hope) and I will know around the start of 2009 if I qualify. There are limited positions to this program so nothing is guaranteed. I wrote my General Knowledge exam last week and have reason to believe it went well.
Two qualities important to me are fairness and honesty. So it is with some pride and hope that I will show my completed portfolio to 'the Gal's' parents this weekend. For me, it makes sense to show them as they were happy for me at the time my initial plans were revealed.
In about a month even more of my intentions will be revealed.
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