I've come to a point in my life where everyone around me is experiencing the tug of change. And I can't be immune. Friends are applying to graduate school (both masters and PhDs), leaving the country, leaving jobs, being laid off, searching for something more fulfilling. I essentially believe that in the next year I need to decide on a path. Here are my options as I see them:
1) stay in the office/corporate world and try to move closer to the production & creative side.
It took a lot of work to get my foot in the door and I am reluctant to walk away from the opening. I am also hopeful that in a few years the economy will recover and I will have enough of a TV network and experience in the workplace to jump up the ladder a few rungs. After all, I now a have a job in my field. Cons are a tense workplace and a non creatively challenging job.
2) get a master's in education and become a teacher.
This would be a quarter life crisis move. I could become a teacher, get paid more, play with kids, and do something more along my personality line. I know it's hard work but I love kids and I think I could really get a kick out of teaching. Cons are that it is not related to film/media. But at a high school level...there's wiggle room. Education is a reliable field choice with a high demand and good benefits.
3) go to graduate school in Media/Film Studies
This is the passion, the dream. However, it is expensive, debt-inducing and in no way promising of a future career in Film or Media. A big indulgence with high risk- but really fun. Kind of foreboding in this kind of economy. Also does not really address my interest in production.
I'm hoping two weeks in the Grecian sun will pull an epiphany out of me!
There are probably five or six or more possibilities, it's just that you see three right now. Those forks in the road, they can be really challenging, and sometimes you can deny the fork and just cut your way through the woods. Seuss had it right, you know. "Oh, the places you'll go. ... with your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good-street."
ReplyDeleteI heart Dr.Seuss. Yes you are right, this is all created in my head. The only thing I can say is there are so many good streets to go down!
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