I've never blogged before today, I'm the type of person who comes up with random ideas that I like to share with people but don't always have the opportunity to get what's on my mind out to the masses in time. So I thought I would give this a try and my first topic is what I really want out of a career. Like a lot of people my age, 29, I've worked in a lot of different fields of work. Landscaping, service industry, cooking, shoe sales, fitness, television, which is where I find myself now. I went to college with the dream of someday becoming an actor or a tv personality reading you the news before you drift off to sleep at night. Halfway through college I thought I had it all figured out, until one day someone told me that it would be very very difficult to get a job in front of the camera and said I should just take the easy road and get behind the scenes with a better chance at employment. So of course, I let that person influence my decision and took the easy road, which I later found out was also the low paying, you're going to have to work two jobs and live paycheque to paycheque road. So now after 5 years in the tv news industry I've finally decided to go another route. I'm starting acting classes soon and heading down to california next fall. Why? Because deep down it's what I really want to do, don't get me wrong, I have a good paying, secure job with benefits and the whole nine yards. It's a good living, but it's not what I really want to be doing with my life. I feel like a cog in the machine here.
So it begs the question, when in life do you make a decision to throw away the secure and safe and take a risk and pursue what you really want? It's not an easy question to answer.
