When I returned from Japan last year my goals were very general. Get a job and establish a life in the United States that was as exciting as the one I lived as an international English teacher.
It's been over a year now since I moved back to Boston and took a job at a corporate childcare. The 'anniversary' as they call it when you cycle through a year since your hire date frankly scared the crap out of me. You hear it all the time, someone takes a job that they think is only going to be temporary and then they're in their fifties and still miserably there.
I've accomplished a little since I've been back. I got my certificate in Early Childhood Education and I've sent out about 150 resumes and cover letters. Only a handful of which were very personally rejected by form letter.
I realize it's the economy, but I can hardly say I'm a recent college graduate after three years. Pretty soon employers will be seeing me trying to break into publishing as a career switch when I haven't begun the career I wanted to begin with.
My hobby right now is being a grad school voyeur. I order catalogs from all the schools I want to attend and ogle them at night when I'm too exhausted to do anything but read. I doubt any loan agency in their right mind would give me the money, but I am working on my essay to get into Simmons College again. Looking into their program in children's literature. All roads lead to Simmons!
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