"WHEN I GROW UP..." I will know I have grown because I've stopped referring to some distant time in the future I am waiting to finally arrive.
I think it's near.
And I know this because for the first time in my life I am not waiting for the time of self realization to come. I'm actually going there; if that makes any sense at all.
So I may be getting a little bit ahead of myself here, but I had an 'aha moment' today about where I see myself going in the next few years until I graduate from college. Up until about the end of Summer '09, I fancied myself a budding journalist who was just in the wrong college (William Paterson University). I thought things would be better at a bigger school at a better location, yadda yadda I went to Temple University in Philadelphia, and I realized that I don't want to pursue a career in journalism.
I know I like to write. I know I like to read. And today, I realized that I can do both of those things as an Editor at a publishing company. More specifically Penguin Group. It is an amazing company to work for and I'm pretty sure it has everything I'm looking for in a career. I plan on doing everything I can to work for them in the near future.It feels good to have an ambition again.
