I have decided that 2014 is the Year of Doing. The reason for this is because I have no idea what is going on in my life! So to start somewhere, I made a list of things I want to accomplish by the time I turn 25 and then a list of things I have to do before I die. Now some of these might not seem like a 'finding your path in life' type of things, but to me they are a definite necessity.
Things to do before I turn 25
- Go HangGliding, because it sounds like fun
- SCUBA Dive with a Great White Shark, again, because it would be fun, plus a huge adrenaline rush
- Go back to school, I am pretty sure my degree is worthless... sorry dad but thanks for the great college experience, I had fun! Oh, and to actually get another degree when I go back to school.
- Find a career that I actually like, because obviously that is a good idea
- Read 250 books, at least 50 being educational
- Go visit Laurel in whatever country she lives in when I visit
- Learn how to be more clean so Andrew does't keep freaking out about how messy I am
Things to do before I die
- Go to every continent
- Live abroad for at least a year
- Be able to retire by 65, (see finding a job that I like/make money at in "before I turn 25"
- Be bilingual, because I definitely can't do that by 25
- Become a SCUBA instructor, that way I can retire by 65 and just dive all the time for free
- Go to the Galapagos, I like animals
- Have enough money to live comfortably after I retire, which means I have to start saving yesterday
- Climb an active volcano, because who wouldn't want to do that
I am sure that if I truly thought about it that there would be a lot more to say about what I want/need to do before I turn 25 and before I die, but then I got distracted by another thought. What other people should do in their lives.
The number one thing on my list that people should do at least for 3 months of their life, PEOPLE NEED TO WORK IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY. Then they would be a lot more nice. I just don't think that people understand how crazy and ridiculous they are. After working in the service industry, I started tipping more and being a lot more nice to people that I talk that are doing a service for me, even being nice to the people in India that answer the phones for AT&T, which takes a lot of effort. SO to everyone that has not worked in the service industry, I beg you to do so. If you do not take my advice, then I ask for you to be nice to those of us that do, because you make my day a living hell if you are not.
Coming from that statement, we can go into my thoughts on my job. I really dislike my job. I am doing what an ant could do. I was going to say what a monkey could do, but since everyone tells me that they are smart, I will steer clear of that. So I do what an ant can do. I answer phone calls and check people in and out. It is really boring but at least it pays the bills. I am the only person that I work with that has a college degree, so I definitely feel like my degree was worthless. My director keeps telling me to be patient and a position will open up and she will promote me. I doubt that will happen though. The managers pretty much don't want to promote me because I voice my opinion (shocking, I know) and because I think that things need to be changed and they think that things are fine. However, they have never done the job that I do because they came in as managers so they have no idea what goes on. They can't even come to the front desk to help check people out because they don't know how to do it. So they don't know what needs fixing because they can't even do the job themselves. The spa would run a lot smoother if we could fix things, since the job that I do is the center of the spa. We book the reservations, we greet the guests, we make sure the guests are happy their entire stay by serving them food and wine and get them warm neck wraps and robes and any other random crap that they request because they are all high maintenance people, then we check them out and take their money. Without my position, there would be no spa. We could make so much more money if the little things that need fixing of my job were fixed. But since we already make so much money, they don't want to change anything. When I got a facial today, one of the estheticians informed me that they fired two other estheticians because they didn't upgrade enough facials, which means that they weren't charging people more than what they originally booked for. The Spa is like an ATM, we are just a cash machine. MONEY MONEY MONEY. Which is good, but we could make more. Thats what I want to help them do as a manager but they get scared of change. The same rules and ways have been in place for years. Sometimes things need to change, especially as the times and social norms change.
I have decided that I need to get out of this industry. I love it but I want better hours and better pay than I will ever get in the hospitality industry.
I have looked into many different options. I keep thinking dental school because of dad, but then I know that I would date that, plus that is a lot of school to do. Then I thought about being a surgeons first assistant, aka stitching people up and handing surgeons tools and stuffing gauze in when the people produce too much fluid or bleed. Hmmmmmm, doesn't sound much like me. So now I am looking into going back to school for sonography. Which means doing ultrasounds. After doing research into this, I found that you can specialize in certain areas of ultrasound. I want to do pediatric cardiovascular. So for little ones. But that is today, who knows if I will want to do that tomorrow. These things I have to ponder on for a while because I get an idea in my head that I think I like and am not sure if I actually like it.
HAPPY 2014 PEOPLE. THE YEAR OF DOING.
