Thursday, June 24, 2010
Taking my own advice
Today I decided to take my own advice and do something I've sort of been wanting to do: start a blog. Honestly, I am not entirely sure why. Maybe I'm just bored and need a new project. Maybe I want to help people in some small way. Maybe I think I am funny and this will be a positive use of my sarcasm. By the way, this is an advice blog. Which is funny, because I am pretty horrible at taking advice. And vitamins. But I think I've always given my friends decent advice, and they keep asking for it in a variety of situations, so it can't be that terrible. So, here goes. I predict this little blog project will be little more than a personal journal of sorts, but maybe a few friends (who are also in their mid-twenties and bored at work/a little frustrated with where they are compared to where they thought they'd be in their lives right now) will take pity on me and ask for some kind of advice that they may or may not actually need (thanks in advance), and we'll all get to have a little fun and maybe even learn a thing or two. Who knows. So, bring on the questions! Dating, career, money, food, health, saving the whales - I'm sure I can help figure it all out, or at least make you chuckle a little while I try.
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Dear L Squared,
ReplyDeleteI commend you on being a do-er instead of just thinking about being a do-er. How many of us sit in our cubes ( or in my case a partial cube shared with an intern) on Fbook or G-chat waiting for our big break to happen...waiting for our future to fall into our laps? In my short time in the work force I have learned that it is the people who go out and make it happen for themselves that are the ones who become most successful. Instead of sitting on facebook stalking your 4th grade boyfriend who is now married with 2 kids asking yourself where the hell the time went, we need to be networking, and taking risks, and putting ourselves out there, and sharing our personal experiences and advice to help one another on the path we forever saw happening for ourselves.
With that all being said my question for you is where did you see yourself at this stage in your life 5 years ago and where do you see yourself going in 5 years from now? What advice would you give to someone who knows where they want to end up but are not sure of how to get on the correct path to get there?
Best,
Jenerous
Jenerous,
ReplyDeleteWow, your question really made me think. Didn't I answer this in a college essay once? Five years ago EXACTLY, I was in Italy my college roommate. A few days before leaving for my trip, I had gone on my first date with the guy who is now my fiance. I remember being at a really good place in my life, excited about the possibilities to come personally and professionally, and super eager to work at the big PR firm of my dreams for years and years. In between then and now, I GOT the job of my dreams, ended up hating where I was a mere year and a half later, got another job I didn't expect to turn out the way it has, lost touch with my college roommate/travel buddy, dated, moved in with and got engaged to pre-Italy date guy, and am now a homeowner, dog owner, cat owner (very big surprise for everyone who knows me), who's getting married in a few months. I honestly never thought I would be where I am now this soon, and I am so happy about most of it - but like everyone else, there are some things I would really like to change right now. I seem to lack the motivation or direction or some other word ending in ion that would get me from point A to point B. In five years I hope to be happily married, happy in a new job and possibly entirely different career (stay tuned!), and I hope to have things a lot more figured out than I do now (I know, hard to tell I don't have it all together ;) ). My advice? Be open to new possibilities! Sound like a fortune cookie? Perhaps, but it's true. People I've talked to who seem to have it together have taken risks, put themselves out there, tried and failed in different jobs and are still figuring themselves out. Maybe they have ADD like I think I do. But, they veer off the path, take the road less traveled, change their minds...and it gets them somewhere that will get them somewhere else. I admire people who get bored and find the need to reinvent themselves. I think that's part of why I started this blog. It was the only way I could think of to do something I wanted to do right as I wanted to do it, and I knew I could figure it out as I went along.
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