This Entry is Dedicated to Laura Marchesani
It's strange to be updating this thing looking back on the previous entries, because I'm in a totally different place from where I started. Out of the city, out of school, out of a job (kidding...there's still Compuware) and out of an entire life that had become so routine over the past five years. I guess that it hasn't hit me quite yet, that this summer holding pattern won't lead me back to the city (or to MY city, it will lead to a different city). One would say that I should be panicking right now, like last year, but it's amazing what a difference a year makes. Especially a transition year like the one that I had.
It's funny how things all fall into their places, and how the people I know have settled into different niches. We were all in the same place for so long; all students, living together, seeing one another all the time. Then, all of a sudden, everyone went disparate and those who wanted to become doctors are now becoming doctors, those who wanted to become teachers are now in the classroom, those who wanted to play videogames are now QA testers for Showtime...haha, you get the idea. It makes me wonder where I will end up, and where this next year will lead me. I know that career paths have many ups and downs, and I don't expect to have all of the answers right now. I'm not in the quarterlife crisis anymore, not stressing myself out over things that I cannot control at the moment. It puts me at ease to have a plan for next year, and I'm going to take it one year at a time (or month or day). I'm not pretending that I can figure it all out by the age of 23.
Anyway, for as stagnant as Compuware is, things have changed a lot from last year. Many shifts, many reorganizations, and being in a different place here gives a different perspective. But if this place can change, it just proves that anything can change.
It's funny how things all fall into their places, and how the people I know have settled into different niches. We were all in the same place for so long; all students, living together, seeing one another all the time. Then, all of a sudden, everyone went disparate and those who wanted to become doctors are now becoming doctors, those who wanted to become teachers are now in the classroom, those who wanted to play videogames are now QA testers for Showtime...haha, you get the idea. It makes me wonder where I will end up, and where this next year will lead me. I know that career paths have many ups and downs, and I don't expect to have all of the answers right now. I'm not in the quarterlife crisis anymore, not stressing myself out over things that I cannot control at the moment. It puts me at ease to have a plan for next year, and I'm going to take it one year at a time (or month or day). I'm not pretending that I can figure it all out by the age of 23.
Anyway, for as stagnant as Compuware is, things have changed a lot from last year. Many shifts, many reorganizations, and being in a different place here gives a different perspective. But if this place can change, it just proves that anything can change.