Ch-ch-ch-changes

Where the creative juices flow... or falter...while I wait for change.

Since last week, I have definitely been faced with quite a bit of impending changes. On Saturday, I had an interview for a retail sales associate position at the local mall, and then on Monday, had another interview in Boston for a manuscript assistant position at a medical journal. On top of that, as mentioned in a previous post, I got accepted to another grad school. Clearly, within a few weeks, definitely a few months and even in the next year, things are going to be a lot different and certainly, my daily life will be changing.

With the prospect of grad school on the horizon, I have been viewing my job search in a different way. Primarily, the goal is to save as much money as possible in a short amount of time to prevent grad school from being an overwhelming financial burden. At the same time, ideally, it would be great to find a job that would be in line with my career goals. However, after so much inactivity over the past few months of post-college life, I don't know if I can really afford (pun intended) to wait around for that stepping stone position. Could this be a bad decision in terms of starting my career and gaining more experience? Maybe. But in a day and age where money rules all, I'm at the point where I need to get things moving a little faster so that I can start saving for grad school and become more financially independent.

As much as I love to contemplate these potential changes from the comfort of my own desk, I'm ready for something to do. I've accepted the retail position in the mean time in hopes that I can start saving money for all of the things I'd like to do in the future -- continue my education, travel, perhaps buy a car... But I haven't given up all hope in finding that "stepping stone" position, much like the manuscript assistant position I applied for and am waiting to hear about. Though I realize that I might end up in over my head if I do get offered the manuscript assistant job after having already accepted the retail job, I feel like it's something that I have to do. I have only been waiting for all of these changes to happen, without experiencing any of it. I wake up and do pretty much the same thing every day except maybe in a different sequence, hoping that today will be the day I get offered a job and am set on the path to career enlightenment. That is unlikely to happen. Instead, I am trying to be more pro-active in pursuing change. And if I get caught in that pickle with two jobs? Honestly, I suppose that is not the worst position I could be in at this point. Like I've said before, it's nice to have options and even nicer to finally be receiving a paycheck.