In school they talk about how you can be who you want to be. Ummm, fuck no, sorry but that is a load. I try not to tell my kids the same thing, because I want them to be better and wiser than me. But the reality is, not all of us have that control, and also saying that gives a sense of entitlement. There are these things called circumstances, they like to pop up and really screw with things, and if you want something you need to push yourself past those things to grab your end goal.
Starting school was more for me to help get my brain going. I didn’t really expect any long term education was going to come out of it, especially a career path. It was honestly to make sure the 5minutes plus my oxygen deprived brain didn’t kill out on me all together going forward.
I have not and still am not one of those people who are like, wow this is what I am going to do and I am going to do it. I am the type who starts something and then I am like ummm this is not for me, or I get bored. Hence why I have had so many jobs, because I get bored because I don’t ever see a chance to progress.
Starting out I just took some basic classes, mostly because I didn’t remember much (it had been 10 years plus). I found that I actually enjoyed the challenge and I missed the learning process. I got one year in, which considering I was not even a year out from my SCA. But after that year, I found something that would be cool, radiology. It wasn’t just to take x-rays that I was looking at, but to get my foot in the door to do echocardiograms. And thus a new part of my life starts (well another one).