To be...or not to be....

Okay, so I do realize that I am not the first person to go back to school at my age, 46. Yet, it still is a daunting aspect to me. I pretty much blamed my lack of desire to go on in school on my poor math skills.

Or I blamed it on the fact that I really did not know what I wanted to go to school for, heck I still don’t but none the less I am going. I have always been envious of those who just always knew what they wanted to be. How do you decide?

My mother became a nurse. She was the first on in her family, well, the only one of the 6 kids to go on in school. My father, well he actually did not graduate from high school. He joined the Navy and after getting out he went to work for General Motors.

My oldest sister, Sally, followed my mother into nursing, and she enjoyed it. But it sure was not my cup of tea. It takes a certain kind of person to be a nurse. Nurses have something special deep in their hearts at least that is how I feel about those who choose that profession.

My middle sister, Judy, followed my father into the GM world and is now a retired shop rat at the age of 54.

I started with GM, worked for a year and was laid off. I had the option to go to work at the Saturn plant in Tennessee and opted to take the buyout they offered. Was that a mistake, maybe, but I’m where I was meant to be.

I was a bit of a tomboy growing up, I loved to hang with my father, whether it was going out to the school house to mow the lawn or just watching him make something out of wood on his band saw. My father thought I should follow him into the Navy, he went so far as to put my name on one of those “invites” that used to be in the magazines for recruiters….yep….I got a call from a recruiter one day and was a little surprised.

But, nope, the Navy was not for me either.

So…what do I want to be when I grow up? What do I want to go to school for? To be or not to be what??? Well, I still don’t know but for now I am starting to practice what I have been preaching to my niece, Julie, get your basics you just may stumble on something that you want to do along the way.