Well well well,
I am SO HAPPY to announce (after many years of indecisiveness) that I have finally nailed down what I want to do as a career. I have been humming and hawing about it for about 4 years now. My criteria for my career consists of #1. feeling fulfilled #2. aligning with my moral standards #3. in demand in rural BC #4. Makes enough money to live in BC comfortably #5. relatively normal schedule. I definitely looked into becoming a nurse for a long time. I just wasn’t 100% sure about it and I did not want to spend that much time/energy/money on something I wasn’t sure about. So what I have decided to pursue is a Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant! It is a 2 year full time program and I would be attending the same school as my hubby for a year.
This all came to me after going to yoga with my mom on Saturday. The teacher is someone who I look up to and often find myself thinking and saying out loud “I want to be just like Helen when I grow up.” She has been teaching yoga for 30 years. She is very attentive with her students, she will micro manage you until you have a pose correct but she lets you know why it is important and what you risk injuring doing the pose incorrectly. She has extensive anatomy knowledge and has a deep understanding of the human body’s movements and how to heal injuries. I have been practicing yoga for over 10 years and have always wanted to become a teacher but know that is not going to help support my growing family in the way I would like it to, also the schedule is all over the place. Even Helen has said to us many times that you don’t teach yoga to make money because you will never be rich teaching yoga, you do it because you love it. I know my husband would not support me just teaching yoga full time because he was raised in a very motivated professional family (both his parents are University professors) So I am hoping to eventually merge the two together to try and blend physio and yoga into a all encompassing healing program. If anyone has any advice or experience I would love to hear!
Wish me luck on my new career move! If I don’t leave this law firm soon I really don’t know how I will cope.
Patchoulidumptruck 