It's amazing how, when you're busy, all you want to do is relax. Being in school is a perfect example. Time is never yours when you're in school. Even when all the homework is done you still feel as if you should be studying. Guilt abounds. Any stolen private time feels like a transgression against your GPA.
Being out of school, however, with no job or occupation is much, much worse. I sit alone in my house all day waiting for Olen to get home from work. Once the house is clean and the groceries bought, there is nothing else for me to do. I have no kids to take to school, no friends who do not work during the day. I am indescribably bored, and as a result, completely unmotivated to start something useful, like my wedding scrapbook or a running schedule.
In this economy, finding a real job borders on impossible. I am underqualified for certified jobs and overqualified for the rest. Having a Bachelors without a Masters or Doctorate is akin to cooking a meal without a fire. All the pieces are there, but there's nothing to get you started.
I finally found a job at a hospital, serving as an assistant in the operating rooms, stocking saline and warm blankets. It's a job that a high school graduate could do and it's the best my $100,000 education could get me. In less than a year I'll be starting medical school, and I suppose I'll be wishing for this time when I had nothing to occupy my time but books and countless episodes of The Office. Now, however, I have seen the fence, and the grass is certainly greener over there.
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