It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To

Sometimes life takes you down roads you would never expect. My first idea for a career came to me when i was around 6. i wanted to be a missionary/nurse to Africa. I stuck with that idea for a few years, and when I became involved with music i wanted to become an opera singer. Not much of a job market for that so my parents steered me towards picking another career. Finally, when it became time to pick major for collage, I picked one off of the internet. It was called commerical writing and since i had just won an award for a patriotic paper and another for a play I wrote, it seemed fitting. Unfortunately, I hated most of the core classes for that major, so I was going to become an elementary education major. Of course, then came that whole pcc blow up thing. i moved back home and decided to do online school. I couldn't decide which major, and my parents told me I had a month to decide. I finally decided on Business. i passed all the classes i took, but i have no clue what I was doing in most of them. So now I have 59 credits and no degree. About $4,000 down the hole and nothing to show for it. Working part time for $9.50 and making less than $10,000 a year. Now, most people would be ready to write off my education as a loss. But I wouldn't. I learned that you can't pick what you want to do with your life over night. I learned that maybe you should go with your dream instead of going with what is practical. And the best thing that came out of all of it, is I met my husband. AFter all, if i hadnot gone to college, i would never have met him. About a year and a half ago, I realized what I wanted to do with my life. it's not something that came to me over night. Through a culmination of all my life experiences, i have realized the thing I want to do the most, is be a wife and mom. And I don't need a degree to do that. Now, i am not going to let my 59 credits go to waste. I am planning on finishing some kind of degree. But now i realize that there is no burning desire for some kind of great career in the working world, because the career i want, is going to be right here in my home with my husband and kids. So, for now, I will finish my school. I will continue in my little job biding my time. Because this is only temporary. Eventually, the day will come when i will be ready to start the job i was put on this earth to do: being a mom. So make all the little housewife/soccer mom jokes you want. There's nothing more that I want to be than somebody's mommy and Jon's wife.