3 yrs no more than 5 yrs plan
A lot of things have held me back my whole life. One thing that has always held me back is what people think of me, their assumptions and judgments. I am working really hard to over come that. I feel like a lot of people in my life have or have had certain expectations of me and I have come to realize that no matter what I do I will never meet those expectations and will continue to be miserable trying to. I have decided to go back to school for Esthetics and Nail Specialty. Yeah, basically working on skin and nails, pretty out of left field for pretty much every who knows me. I considered doing the full cosmetology, but that was only because I knew it was the easiest thing in the beauty field to get a job in with a license. But, I am kinda afraid to cut peoples hair and to be honest am too much of a perfectionist to enjoy it and what I was more interested in was Esthetics, nails are secondary, but vital to helping me secure some kind of employment. Back when I graduated high school and had no real clue what I wanted to do, I told my mom that I was pretty interested in cosmetology. It seemed like a job I could have fun with and it didn't require a lot of schooling. My biggest thing with all my other interests were that they required at the very least a bachelors and I just really don't like school. I have never liked it, even though I did relatively well academically. It's too stressful and boring and I find the homework tedious. I like hands on things, things I can actually do and learn at the same time. Anyways, my mother completely shot that idea down, because I was too smart to be a hairdresser or whatever. She would not pay for that type of schooling. So now I am 7 yrs behind where I could have been, since I started college at 17, a little bit bitter about that.
So in 4.5 months from May(ish) I will have gone through all the Esthetician training and then will take my state boards and after that depending on a job situation I will either go back part time or full time for Nail Specialty which full time takes 8 weeks.
I am pretty nervous about all of this but I know that I'll be better for it in the end. The other thing on the agenda is for Luke to continue to rise up through the ranks and gain experience to get better and higher paying jobs, so that we can afford to move when we are ready to.
I love Rochester in the summer, but unfortunately summer is like 2-3 months, maybe 4 if we are lucky and then shitty weather the other 8-9 months of the year. If it was summer year round I would never move, but I hate hate hate winter with a passion. There is literally nothing I like about winter. I don't mind the first snow dusting, but after that I want it gone and nice weather back. The winter greatly affects me mentally and physically and Luke feels the same as I. We are hoping to move in like 3 yrs to the south, preferably the Charlotte, NC area. I just fell in love with Charlotte when we visited there and while they do have winters and snow, it is definitely not like how winter is here. I mean their winter includes 40-50 degree days through out. Basically, it's our spring/fall and it doesn't last for like 6 months. The main thing holding us back from moving now is my mom and it's not her fault that she is ill, but I don't feel like I can just move away and leave her. I also want to have family around when we begin to have children. So that means staying here for a little while longer. I will feel much better about moving once my mom is in assisted living and I will feel even more better if she agreed to move too.
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So in 4.5 months from May(ish) I will have gone through all the Esthetician training and then will take my state boards and after that depending on a job situation I will either go back part time or full time for Nail Specialty which full time takes 8 weeks.
I am pretty nervous about all of this but I know that I'll be better for it in the end. The other thing on the agenda is for Luke to continue to rise up through the ranks and gain experience to get better and higher paying jobs, so that we can afford to move when we are ready to.
I love Rochester in the summer, but unfortunately summer is like 2-3 months, maybe 4 if we are lucky and then shitty weather the other 8-9 months of the year. If it was summer year round I would never move, but I hate hate hate winter with a passion. There is literally nothing I like about winter. I don't mind the first snow dusting, but after that I want it gone and nice weather back. The winter greatly affects me mentally and physically and Luke feels the same as I. We are hoping to move in like 3 yrs to the south, preferably the Charlotte, NC area. I just fell in love with Charlotte when we visited there and while they do have winters and snow, it is definitely not like how winter is here. I mean their winter includes 40-50 degree days through out. Basically, it's our spring/fall and it doesn't last for like 6 months. The main thing holding us back from moving now is my mom and it's not her fault that she is ill, but I don't feel like I can just move away and leave her. I also want to have family around when we begin to have children. So that means staying here for a little while longer. I will feel much better about moving once my mom is in assisted living and I will feel even more better if she agreed to move too.
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