Everything or something.
I've been very busy with work and I haven't been on my own computer in a while. I've mostly been using my husband's computer so I can watch tv while I play around online. But I also forget to write in my blog when I do that.
It was very hot here for a long time. I hate hot weather, so it started to grate on me and make me grumpy. Then I had a few things come up (my friend with the abusive husband, my other friend with ovarian cancer, and my dad with the whole heart blockage thing he talks about on his blog). Those things made me sad about being stuck here in Scotland when all those people are still in the US. I like it here, but it isn't easy being so far away from all of my people.
I've basically been depressed for a few weeks, and I don't post blog stuff when I'm depressed because I mostly just sleep. I wish I was back home.
I also have been getting frustrated with my job. I don't like working in an office. I don't like having bosses always micro-managing how I do my job. For a few years I've been kicking around a hundred ideas of what I could do for a career that would be better. Lately there have been some radio commercials here that have been getting to me.
Back up for a minute. I have a bachelor's degree in history with a minor (3 classes away from a double major) in geography. These degrees are worthless. They qualify me to work at McDonald's. I only have a nice office job because of my charm and personality. So I'm not starting from a good place to re-train to a new job. I'd love to re-train into something like biochemistry, but I'd have to get a whole new bachelor's degree and then a master's, and it is a lot of work and expense.
Anyway, on the radio, they've been begging people to get trained as teachers. So I looked into it. It pays better than my current job, I'd have more freedom and creativity at work, and I'd get 2 months off in the summer, plus other school holidays. It only takes a year to get a post-graduate diploma in education.
I can't do it now because I have no money. And if I went to school right now, I'd have to apply (and pay tuition) as an international student because I haven't lived here long enough to be a resident. But in a few years I might think about it.
I hate kids. I think that the teenagers here are all surly, rude, foulmouthed bastards. But I can't complain about it unless I'm willing to do something to fix it. So I think I might become a teacher.
Alana
