Career Day

When I was little I wanted to be a pediatrician. So I majored in music and got a music education degree and half a Master's in music performance so I could be a substitute teacher.

That's every little girl's dream, right?

The desire to be a physician stayed with me through my undergrad degree and in to graduate school, where it eventually changed in to a desire to be a sports medicine practitioner in the hopes of one day having a practice treating broken musicians. The two fields are very similar, believe it or not.

I went so far as signing up for some chemistry classes, then leaving Wichita, then signing up again for some science classes, then moving again, and trying a hundred more times to sign up for the core classes I'm missing to apply for medical school. I really thought I could do it.

So now I'm nearly 30, I have a daughter, and I live in Europe where it's not easy to take these core classes and I've convinced myself medical school is no longer in the cards. I don't have to give up on this particular dream, but I think it's over for me and medical school.

The day I got back in to a classroom I remembered how much I love teaching. The more I teach the kids I work with about college and choices leading up to college, the more I lean toward school counseling. Also I long to be more like Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights so school counseling will edge me even closer to that goal. That and mega hair extensions. And a tummy tuck. But I already have an awesome accent.

So I signed up for a Master's of Education in School Counseling. My music certification is going to be next to impossible to renew now that I've let it lapse. This time I've gotten as far as filling out the FAFSA and almost all the classes are online so I have no excuse.

Here we go!