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[balmofgilead]

Told my boss I'm going to be leaving soon. Eh.

So far the dog I'm dogsitting has eaten clumps from the litterbox and pooped in my bedroom. (Luckily, my bedroom floor is tiled, so it doesn't really matter.) I can't really blame her--she's 15, poor old thing, deaf and nearly blind. I've known her since she was a puppy...wow, have I been in Baltimore that long? And today I saw a hypodermic syringe on the bus on the way home. Maybe it's time to head out of here.

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[calypso72]

So, what will your next act be?

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

I'm fighting the urge to say "your guess is as good as mine."

I'm considering either looking for a job as a vet tech (to explore the possibility of going to vet school), looking for any job that includes benefits and a decent salary (so I can move out and live someplace nice) or buying a car with my savings and taking a road trip west. Okay, I doubt I'd do that, but I had a vision of it the other day. I've been in a rut for far too long.

[calypso72]

If you want, I can hook you up with my sis-in-law who went to vet school at Penn. She practices in Ithaca, NY now. I also have a friend who lives in Baltimore who went to Cornell vet school, but only practiced a few years before quitting due to severe allergies and birth of her son. But I'm sure she'd be happy to chat about the experience.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

Thanks! On one hand, I have to do some thinking on my own, first, also, about whether I want to pursue the Vet thing. I'm kind of worried that I'll spend my life around animals and totally miss out on developing more people-skills and people-relationships.

[calypso72]

There's always Toastmasters for that. May as well follow your bliss job-wise.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure whether it's bliss or simply an easy way out (in multiple ways: both the working with animals rather than people, and that I've happened into having experience with animals and little experience with much else.) If it's not bliss, I don't think it's fair to follow that path (to be a vet). (I think my main problem is lack of passion for anything.)

Some pet owners have started to really annoy me, too, with their dogs with names like "Beauregarde Beaumont" (who has terrible behavior) and their "don't let the other dogs bark at him, THAT SCARES HIM" and the general pretending the dogs are children and whatnot. (IMHO there's a difference between a pet being your baby and actually treating the pet like a child.)

[calypso72]

It can't be any worse than my sis-in-law, who did vet school as an easy way out only AFTER getting her PhD in genetics. Although she claims to have a passion for animals, she has no COMpassion. Or people-skills.

Have you considered Peace Corps or Teach for America to get some perspective? Just a thought. I've had a bliss for as long as I can remember, but life keeps getting in the way of following it.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

You're lucky :) I've always been jealous of people who have a passion.

Without meaning to play the role of the person who shoots down every suggestion and persists in complaining...I did consider Peace Corps, but rejected the idea since they require a 27-month commitment--I saw my 20s slipping away, and I have this strong desire to put down roots of some sort and start establishing a life and develop a social circle, and that won't happen on a Peace Corps mission. And I rejected Teach for America because they make you work towards a Masters in education while you're teaching...I imagine teaching is stressful (though rewarding) enough as it is, and I really have no interest in doing work to get a Masters in education. But maybe something in a similar vein will surface!