Get a real job!

I have a bachelor degree in Psychology.

This is a big accomplishment.  Now there are many job opportunities that are open to me because I have a degree.  This is huge!  A lot of companies look at a degree and see all the hard work you've done and see that you stick things through.  ... Or so my family tells me.  I'm sure they believe all this too. Their strongest belief is that I "can do so much better than a waitressing job."   They never hesitate to remind me of this either.

Of course, the economy is not taken into consideration.  Or my lack of experience.  Or even the fact that I look for jobs that require a degree, or somthing in the psychology field that I'm interested in.  Often it seems as though my feelings are not even taken into consideration.

Here's a thought: maybe I like waitressing?  Maybe I like touching peoples lives in miniscule ways and attempting to make peoples days better.  Hey, maybe I got a degree in psychology because I like people and I want to understand them, then use that knowledge to help other people.  And Maybe, just maybe that's what I feel I'm doing in my waitressing position.

No waitressing doesn't make as much money as having my own practice.  Yes, I would like to find another position at some point.  Right now, what I really want is to integrate myself into my husband's business.  Be a photographer with him and run the photo booth.  That is what I'm working towards.

When I first went into college I didn't know what degree I wanted.   My family knows that I grew up wanting to be an artist, drawing constantly.  For a while I wanted to get a degree in art, then photography.  I was told that that was just a hobby and shouldn't get a degree in it.  So then I thought I would like to be a youth minister.  When I took a psychology class for that degree psychology peeked my interest. So I ran with that and went to a university.  I was thinking that I would become a counselor... well a year before I graduated I took a counseling class, and found that was not for me.  So I graduated with a degree in psychology not knowing what I was going to do....  ***scariest time of my life*** Now I have the opportunity to go back toward my first love: being an artist, becoming a photographer!  That is what I want to do.

So thank you for your concern and want for more for me.  But this is my life.  I'm building my dream.  Let me live!!!  Stop making me feel like what I'm doing is below me.  I'm growing, learning, and enjoying my life right now.   I'm headed somewhere.  Don't push me too fast or try to hold me in the past.  I'm moving at my pace because this is my life.  And...

Today, I served....