I’ve mentioned before that I’m an avid article reader about all kinds of topics. I’ll start reading an article about the “Hottest gifts for Teens that they won’t hate” to “How to make the best pork roast” to the newest Tech item. I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I tried writing a sequel to The Last of the Mohicans when I was eleven. My mom is super proud, but let’s just say although it had imagination the grammar was atrocious.
The best blog advice out there says you should pick a topic and stick with it. Well, the ADD in me isn’t’ going to allow me to do that. Let’s face it I’m not exactly an expert regarding anything, but I do know I’m pretty passionate about a lot of things. Maybe after posting for a while, I’ll find that one topic to stick to, but in the meantime, you’ll just have to bear with me.
What’s with “It was this or law school”?
You know when you were in middle school and they had you take an aptitude test to see if you had a “particular set of skills”, so that they can drive your high school placement into your college placement and then you’d have your entire life planned out for you at the age of thirteen? What thirteen-year-old even knows what to do for the test of their lives? Heck I’m over forty and I still don’t know what I want to do. Yes, I’m employed, but it isn’t exactly what I thought I wanted to do. I just needed a steady gig to make sure my mortgage was paid every month and that my friends was twenty years ago. The career has afforded me a very comfortable living and way to raise my family.
Back to this law school thing. In middle school every aptitude test I took ended with my being an attorney. No matter how many times I took the test and tried to manipulate it to the outcome I desired, which at the time was a Child Psychologist. Not one time did that freaking test come out as Psychologist anything. Every time I took it the result was the same, it stated I should be an attorney. After thirty years of reflection again, what was I thinking wanting to become a Child Psychologist? It’s not like I had great experience with the profession, but the thought of helping kids seemed appealing. It seemed like all my friends came to me for advice because as they said I was a great listener. It’s still the same today with my adult friends. I listen and delve out advice. Some people take it and go with it. Other friends take the advice, and it goes in one ear and out the other. As “they” say you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t force them to drink.
After many, many years continuing my education, it took me fifteen years to get my bachelors after changing my major three times. I finished and I decided to go to Law School, but was too scared to apply, so I procrastinate by attending graduate school. I was able to get into a school utilizing my work experience in leu of the big GRE test.. I’m the apotome of avoidance. I did end up finishing grad school and applying to law school, but I didn’t get in that first term and even though I told the Dean that If the didn’t take me and I’d do whatever possible to make up for early admissions that if I didn’t go then then I wouldn’t go at all. That was seven years ago and still haven’t reapplied. Last year I signed up to the take the LSAT again, but then chickened out in time to get my money back. Those placement test are expensive, but you’ve heard most of this story before.
I’m a firm believer that if you want to do something you should do it, but we tend to be our worlds worst enemy because we sike ourselves out. In hindsight I’m glad that I didn’t get into law school. I switched companies and the relationships I established then have helped me to grow where I am today. I might still go back to school one day, but not today. Life has a funny way of giving us what we need even though it may not be what we want.
If you have got a credit card, laptop, an elementary knowledge of search engines, and maybe not an exorbitant amount of time you too can start your own blogging website. I am not a technical whiz by any stretch of the imagination and let’s say it took over a year to figure out how to change the style of my webpage. I tried phoning by twenty something year old daughter to entice her college roommate who has a graphic design degree to help an old lady out. The older and older I get I’m starting to identify with my mother, yikes. That took a lot to admit too.
Those blog articles also stated that you should blog 1,000 words 2-4 times per week. I’m getting pretty close to that 1,000 words per blog, but my last post was a month ago. Trying something new and being disciplined enough to successfully initiate a routine is difficult with any new behavior. That’s how I see blogging that it will eventually become an extension of myself. A positive behavior if you will.
I’m going to leave off now as I spend more time editing this post for grammatical errors. The writer in me is still getting the hang of this. You know what eleven-year-old me, at least your tried. That my friends is a lot more than most people do. Put yourself out there.