Because the First Four Years Weren’t Enough

I’m going back to school. Again. For the third time since I graduated the first time around.

This time, I think there will actually be some follow-through because I think I’ve finally figured out what I want my day job to be. Let me just preface this by saying that when I went to college the very first time, I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was done (I refuse to say “when I grow up” because I will not do anything of the sort, thankyouverymuch).

I have a good job now, but when it comes right down to it, I don’t find it very fulfilling. I have no passion for my work. I kept looking at graduate school trying to determine what I could go into with my current degree (kinesiology). Let me also say that while I absolutely loved getting my degree, the actual usefulness of? my degree? Negligible. I have no desire to enter any of the fields that my degree has opened the doors to.

I have finally accepted that in order to do something that appeals to me, I am going to have to get a second bachelor’s degree. This time, in anthropology. My concentration will be in archeology. I cannot tell you how excited I am about this! I am all about discovery and research and writing and history. Seriously.

I’ll be attending UAB, which is where I started my collegiate endeavors and where I subsequently went back two more times and did not follow through on any further degrees. I sent in my application yesterday and should hear something back shortly. I thought I wasn’t going to have to request transcripts, but I have a feeling I will. We shall see.

The other great thing is that because of where I work now, my tuition will be paid by my employer up to 12 semester hours a year. How cool is that?

So wish me luck that I start back to school in the fall. I’m looking forward to sleepless nights, jampacked days and learning. Lots and lots of learning.

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