Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The Grass Could Be Greener

Right now I'm feeling stuck in a rut. After years of working hard toward a goal, reaching it, and then moving on, I'm at a standstill. I'm looking for a new mountain to conquer, a new horizon to work toward and so far I'm still not sure which direction to take.

I have come to the conclusion that I have 3 choices: 
1) Continue on being a pharmacy tech, working hard toward gaining experience and seeing where I could go with this job (from retail to hospital?).
2) Start school again and work toward my Masters or PhD in Psychology to ultimately become a Psychologist (minuses- school debt + time). 
3) Work toward starting and opening a bakery again and figuring out where I would start my business (here or wait until the next duty station?).

Choices. I don't think I've ever been content to just go to work and come home and live my life around a manager's schedule. Actually, my schedule right now at work prohibits me from having any sort of life with my husband as he is off every weekend and I work every. single. weekend. I understand that I am the new person, the low-end of the totem pole but I think working about 3-4 months of weekends has reached peak ridiculousness. The weekend workload and night shift workload is not evenly distributed and I'm getting fed up. I've even already started to explore other avenues of work just because the grass could be greener and their schedule is most likely better too. 

I'm also taking a look at my day-to-day life and figuring out if I'm getting in all I want to get in. I have become lazy with my life. Staying home, doing nothing, wondering why I don't feel content in it when I could be going out in the world, organizing my life, reading, writing, creating and exercising. I focus too much on social media noise and not as much on the life in front of me. There is so much time I'm wasting and I want to try and change that. Time to get to work.