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What Am I even Doing with my life?
8 years ago
Thought of the day: Okay? So I Graduated HighSchool now what? I feel so lost. I don't know what I am doing with my life anymore and don't even know what I want to do with my life. Don't even know what I want to do with my career. I don't even have a career. I have tried getting hired by the Vet Clinic down the street from my house. Nobody ever called me back. I have tried getting hired doing taxidermy- It's such a cut throat business and I don't have enough experience to even get hired by the local taxidermist. I try to get commissions for my doodles nobody commissions me. On top of all that- I don't know how to drive a car nor ride a bike and I just start feeling immensely useless. This is basically the story of my life day in and day out- I live in a townhouse on the outskirts of a city not much to really do during the day. I have a Walmart across the street, gas station up the street and then a Walgreens further up the street. I don't have a job. I've tried to get hired but I don't have much under my belt and no I don't want to work for the nursing home adjacent to my living quarters. I just feel so lost at times. I don't know what I want to do with myself. I just Feel like a miserable puke at times especially when I am spending the day in and day out sitting on my couch doing basically nothing.
(Most people don't even read journals nowadays, so I am just gonna leave this here.)
(Most people don't even read journals nowadays, so I am just gonna leave this here.)
I only worked on North American game and that was it.
I decided, at 27 years old, while pregnant and just after graduating Nursing school, that I would pursue my dream. I bought "drawing on the right side of the brain" and started teaching myself to draw. I bought a coyote pelt and everything I thought I needed for a soft mount and just jumped in. You have the most valuable resource available: free time!! Choose something you enjoy, and jump in! If you hate it, at least you know now its not for you and can try another interest. I know this stuff costs money. My suggestion would be to get a job, any job, and use it to fund your interests and pay bills in the mean time. That's what I do. I'm a nurse, yeah, but its just a job.
Theres also some really good books out there that will help you find what your dream job really is. I can link a few if you like :)
Off the topic- I have tanned and skinned paws/ tail of my own dog that has gotten hit by a car that was taxidermied/ used as an end of the year project. Taxidermy can be such a cutthroat career though, there's always someone else wanting to sabotage you from what I have seen. That or guilt trip you. I have lost more money in taxidermy than I have gotten back out of it. I have also even gotten a coyote pelt stolen By bonus41 sadly now I don't have any proof and she stole it back in 2015 two years ago.