I’d been working at the same company for 3 years, I planned on trying to leave back in 2020, but then Covid happened. I got laid off for a bit but brought back on shortly after, and I didn’t look for other work for awhile because I just felt grateful to have a job. A lot of people had it worse than me, especially in the pandemic, but I just felt like I was in a rut and that all I was gonna do with my life was that job. It’s hard not thinking about where other people are in their life and comparing yourself to them, and I always just thought I’d be doing something more by that point.
Around this time when I was feeling really low, me and my parents went on a trip to Seattle and I was miserable the whole time. I kept getting rejected for jobs and really didn’t know what to do, but talking it out with them I realized I wanted to go back to school to get some of the experience and technical skill I needed. Originally I looked at schools in Minneapolis, but they were really expensive, and I didn’t really think they were what I was looking for. But, as fate would have it, we had family friends whose son was an alumni of Seattle Central, and after looking at the program I thought that’s what I want to do, so I applied and got in.
But now I just had to uproot my life back in Minneapolis. I had a girlfriend of 6 months that things were going well with, didn’t know how that was gonna work. Was gonna have to move halfway across the country in a U-Haul, and only have my roommate in Seattle as a person I know. I never really expected I’d be doing this a year ago, this is the first thing that wasn’t just like a planned part of my life. It’s supposed to go high-school, college, first job, better job, but then it felt like it plateaued. I guess I don’t really know how this will work out, I think well. This first month makes me think this is the place I should be and I feel great about my choice, but ultimately that will come down to how hard I work