Now I have never been one of those girls who says that "Cosmo is my bible" but this week I started reading the latest issue (with Britney Spears on the cover) and one particular article sparked my interest. How not to hate your first job jumped off the page and smacked me in the face. And it's not that I hate my job, because in all honesty it is a paycheck (and a pretty good one at that). The big thing is, it is not what I ever saw myself doing.
In second grade I saw Twister and decided I was going to be a tornado chaser, then in high school I took sports medicine and I wanted to be an Orthopedic surgeon (like Callie on Grey's Anatomy), then finally I found my calling toward the end of high school in newspaper class, I wanted to be a journalist. I loved every minute of it, finding stories that would make people listen and talking to interesting characters from every walk of life.
Back to present time, I am working in corporate America in sales support. And it truly is as unglamorous as it sounds. MTV News allowed me to live in NYC and meet celebs while publishing articles about them, now I just stalk PerezHilton.com every free moment I have.
The whole point of this is that the Cosmo article made me realize it is not your job that has to define you.
"Many of the happiest entry-level workers I've met also play bass in a band, act in an improv troupe, coach a team in an intramural basketball league, or volunteer at an animal shelter," author Lilit Marcus writes. "If you hate your job and don't want it to define you, get involved in fulfilling activities so that there are other things that do."
So that's what I am doing with this blog. If I want to write, I have to make it happen for myself. No one is going to walk up to me on the street and say, "Hey! I want you to write for my magazine."
