The important thing is that I kept up my special birthday tradition of gut-wrenching misery.

[hollyslowly]

I think all the other times I thought I was having a quarter life crisis, I was wrong. Or I started having a quarter life crisis at 24, and will continue having one until some as of yet undetermined date. Which is to say, my 28th birthday is Thursday, I will be spending it at a professional conference, and I feel very sad. I might be over-exercising (?) because it is, quite frankly, the only thing that soothes my nutjob anxiety at all, so I'm giving myself a pass on it.

I've had the same job for four years, and while I truly love the fact that I've learned so many different skills and had the opportunity to be successful at the goals set for me, I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I'm not even sure I want to do this for the rest of the life of my car loan. The problem is that I'm good at lots of things, but I am not passionate about anything. And my birthday is coming up, and I feel like I'm in exactly the same place I was in last year.

I keep thinking, "Well, grad school," but I don't know what discipline I would pursue, which means that would be a pointless waste of time and money. I looked at a job posting for my exact position, but making twice the money in a bigger city, and even though I know I could excel at that position and rake in some $$, the thought of doing the same thing BUT MORE was so disheartening. WHY CAN'T I MAKE A CHOICE ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO DO.

How did you pick your career? Did you feel a calling to do something?

I made mango-banana-Greek yogurt "ice cream," so I have that to look forward to. Man, this is grim.

Comments

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

Hey, something to look forward to after the conference! And spending three hours in a car with my boss!

I'm not sure that volunteering at our county library would have the same benefit, because I'm not as interested in public-facing services, but it is worth a shot.

Just let out a legit heavy sigh. How did you prepare for taking the GRE? I have taken it once before and got near perfect scores on the writing and qualitative reasoning sections, but barely broke the 500s in the quantitative, so I need to study differently this time, clearly.

[sky-was-green.livejournal.com]

Butting in to let you know that while I did take the GRE, I didn't end up needing to send it to any of my library schools! So I would advise not stressing about it too much, unless you have a particular school in mind that requires it.

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is excellent news. As I recall, it was an expensive test, so if I don't need to do it again, I'm definitely not going to.

[carlyinrome.livejournal.com]

Yeah, about the GRE... I may have only applied to schools that didn't require GRE scores. Because I am an adult who makes adult decisions.

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

HAH. #rolemodel

[carlyinrome.livejournal.com]

I live large and take charge, Holly.