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I write this first post as I argue with myself about why in the world I would create a blog. No good reason, nothing exciting going on in my life, and no one to read it. It's the posterity of it, though, I suppose. The fact that if someone random found it, they could have a chuckle at the mundane aspects of my life, and if someone I care about sees it, they'll know what's going on in my random, question-addled brain in a sporadic fashion.

So what's going on in my life right now? A relatively decent amount, actually. Work at JC has been relatively profitable. The keyword being relatively. It's feast or famine, I've learned the hard way. Turnover is about 85%, as Bryan says, in his amazingly quick-witted way "those are Burger King numbers." So true. So my days there are numbered. I've done my homework on the Nutrition and Fitness career path and it's not for me.

I've tried entering a career field three ways:
1. Go to school 'cause you've got nothing better to do and you're supposed to go to college straight from HS. Drift around anonymously for a while, trying every field in the school's catalog until you have enough hours to have a degree but no cohesive field of study (African Art, Museum Studies, Biology, Anthropology, Statistics, etc, etc, etc).
2. Go back to school after a break from going to school and working full time. Make the decision to move to go to said school and actually move within a month of the decision. Apply and get accepted to a program that sounds great, has cool toys and fun people. Have a great time and make great friends while in school, knowing but not accepting until 6 credit hours from graduation that you have no skills or desire to make your education a career.
3. Think of something that fits your lifestyle completely, has enveloped your life without you realizing it for the preceding three years, and could actually be the basis for a career. Could, in actuality, be labeled a 'passion.' Try it on. Get a job in a related field, tour schools with programs that would get you to your destination career and sit with it for a while.

The latter is the one I would recommend by far, for obvious reasons. It took a lot of the other 2's worth of life experience to cool my jets and let me do the sensible thing, however. The sucky part: it didn't work.

The moral of the story that I've learned with my latest approach is that people don't want to lose weight and live healthier lifestyles; they just want to be thinner and have energy to do the things that the pretty people on TV do. Mind you, they wouldn't do them if they had the energy, they'd probably just spend more time at the mall buying the smaller clothes. I'm bitter and jaded, but I just want to pack up my health and my fitness and do something that will actually allow me to pay rent, eat regularly, even clothe myself.

So stay tuned, I may be on to a new, more viable idea. My spontaneous, adventurous side (see 2, above), has begun to itch again, and change of scenery may be inevitable. I'm listening to my world-wise, money-conscious side (read: Bryan) more now, realizing that falling on my face is a very real possibility if I move too quickly, think, or should I say acknowledge, too little.