Forever Career?
Finding my forever career in a world of career boxes.
I have heard that finding your “style” within both writing and writing a blog is always the most time-consuming and taxing task. Since starting this blog last month, I have yet to surpass writing a list on my phone titled “Blog Ideas.” I have considered starting with a wide variety of topics and, each time, have decided against writing about coffee table books I recommend purchasing to my non-existent audience. Clearly, I do not know the style I am expecting this blog to evolve into, and at this point, I just need to be okay with that.
The fact of the matter is, whatever style I choose today for this blog, is most likely not going to the style it is a year from now. All that matters is that there is a blog a year from now. That I do not give up on writing for myself. So today, I think I will start here - with what I do know now about myself.
Within the past year, I have done my fair share of soul-searching, as a recent graduate does. While each day since I walked across the stage last May, has been full of questions left unanswered - I can look back and see that some decisions were made. Now, these decisions did indeed lead to more questions, but here in this stage of life, I am choosing to celebrate all the small wins. In the last year, I have decided to pursue a career in Nonprofit Fundraising. I would love to create a blog post all about the pros and cons I have accumulated since I started this career two weeks post-graduation, *adds topic to neverending notes list*, but that is for another day. For now, I am celebrating this decision to jump into this career headfirst. I do know that if I hadn’t, I would have wondered if it was the career for me in years to come. That being said—I do not think it is my forever career.
In fact, I had a pretty deep late-night conversation with my boyfriend, whom I have been with for six years and who does indeed know all about my short attention span, about my revolutionary idea not to select a forever career. I have a lot of interests. I have always been the person who jumps from hobby to hobby and wants to try all of the things. On this late evening, I rambled on and on to my boyfriend, that I don’t think I want to find a niche career to settle into. I think what I truly want is a career that is ever-changing. One that allows me to try new things, visit hobbies from all times in my life, and learn what it is that truly makes me happy.
Today, on November 6th, 2023, I see this list of future career endeavors, including:
Copyediting academic books, novels, articles, reviews, and more
Writing blog posts about food, movies, books, cliches, milestones, interior design, and more
Running a second-hand small business
Taking on more graphic design projects
Tapping into my creative well for a variety of projects
Communicating with clients for a variety of mediums?
Whatever the hell I want to do?
Within this year of post-grad life, I have searched and searched for someone to tell me what it is I fit into. What it is I should be doing? I have listened to hundreds of podcasts, read hundreds of articles, checked out numerous books from the library - and have found myself not resonating with people telling me how to get into just one career. Well, to hell with it. This next year, I am manifesting the exploration of various creative outlets and the hope that not only one pays but many. A huge inspiration for this manifestation is the well-spoken influencer Katy Bellotte, who said in a podcast episode from 2020,
“I have found comfort in having a bunch of things that I do, and a lot of things that I touch; for me I just need a lot of different revenue streams.”
So here is to the hope that my future holds many different revenue streams *Cheers*.
Tell me below, have you felt like choosing one career is not for you? Do you also hope that you have many careers in the future? Do you hope to creatively touch many things? If so, I would love to see a list of things you hope to do one day. Thank you for sticking through this wordy and dialogue-heavy blog post.
Talk soon.
