A Career Decided (?)

TGIF!!!

 

I have waited ALL WEEK to be able to say that!  Today ends the 2nd busiest week of my life here at [Current Company].  I still have loads to do today, up to and including revamping something I did earlier in the week because the "owner" added a bunch of stuff and screwed up the formatting.  Not that I'm complaining, mind you; I actually enjoy the process of organizing documents and formatting them so they flow appropriately from one topic to the next. 

 

InfoMapping.

 

I'm referring to InfoMapping - in case you hadn't already figured that out.  I took an InfoMapping class last April ('08) and, though it's been a year (-ish) since I've really put the skills I learned in that class to good use - I'm very, very happy to have an excuse to use it.  It's not extremely difficult, but sometimes the formatting options can really throw you for a loop.  It's used in conjunction with MS Word, and though it looks like you're working in a Word document, and it seems like you should be able to format using the Word options - you aren't and you can't.  A little more maneuvering is involved and adding and deleting things isn't just a simple process.

 

But regardless of the nuances between formatting using InfoMapping and formatting in MS Word, I still enjoy it.  I guess this is just one reason why I love what I do.  I may not be the most organized person in this position, and I may occasionally let something slip through the cracks - but I think that's not necessarily just me being me - I think it's more just me being human.

 

That being said, I recently fired off a letter (via email, of course) to a friend, who also happens to be my doctor.  (Hey!  She made the mistake of giving me her email address so it's her fault!  LOL!)  In the letter I vented about quite a few things, but mostly I vented about my lack of focus and organization.  One would think that my being medicated for ADD (and...um...other stuff) I would be oh-so-in-control, but I'm not.  I still am the world's most disorganized person.  I know how to organize.  I can file stuff like nobodies business.  I can clean and organize a room right up there with the best of them.  But this is not me...by nature.  Nature (God, The Fates...choose one) decided a long time ago that I am supposed to be disorganized.

 

Does that make me an artist?

 

Moving on...one of my wonderful friends and co-workers sent me an email the other day that said, "Perhaps you should consider a career change ?   Seriously…    Maybe even in the [Company's] Marketing department?  I hate that stuff.    I'd rather balance the budget than create a newsletter any day!!!"  I think I mentioned this conversation a post or two ago.  Anyway - that got me thinking...where am I going?

 

Do I really have a career?  Or, am I just working a job...for now?

 

While I do love what I do, it's definitely not my life's ambition to be an Administrative Assistant.  That being said, I decided to take the bull by the horns and contact ITT Technical Institute.  After speaking to wonderful woman at the local campus, I am, someday soon (date has not been set yet) going to meet with her to discuss the Computer Drafting and Design courses for a degree.  This seems to be right up my alley because I love computers, I love design, I love architecture, I love art - but I am (getting back to my original point) worried about the "organization" this course will require.

 

However, by nature, as disorganized as I am, I am also very linear.  I like things to be organized and straight-forward and logical.  So, I think, I may have found my future.

 

Of course, I won't really know until I spend 2 hours with the woman from ITT Tech sometime in the next week or so - but from everything I've read and learned (through independent study and research) I think this is a good thing.  My concerns (and ITT Tech Lady knows this) are time (where am I going to find it?) and money (where am I going to find it?).  But, ITT Tech Lady seems to think that I might be eligible for some financial assistance - so we'll see.

 

Anyway - wish me luck in this new adventure.  It's time.  It really is.

 

TGIF

TTFN
JMS