I'm reading..
I'm reading Woman in Charge: dilemmas of women in authority by Jacobson, and the lovely The Feminine Mystique by Freiden. If that's not wallowing in my status of no-career, I don't know what is. In the midst of all the economic whining, I'm glad to have a job, but I crave a career.. one that makes real money and makes me feel like a person because it confirms that I know who I am and what I'm good at.. which I guess I don't since I am at a loss for which direction to go--always have been. Betty Freiden says to blame my parents on that one. Apparently boredom and lack of self-sustained goals is a symptom of parents who were always there for you (like 50s and 60s wives). I can understand that result, but I'm not going to cite it as the main cause for my indecision. I just feel very close to either tumbling into the mystique of sewing curtains and waxing the floors, or doing something really really worthwhile.