Graduated! (Photo credit: ralph and jenny)
Sometimes as I peruse
My workplace budget
Some strange delight
Suggests I am a frustrated accountant
Other times when navigating
Complex and intense
Interpersonal conversation
A little thrill
Suggests a frustrated psychologist instead
Sometimes as I ponder
The abstract and often absurd
Arguments of office politics
A peculiar intensity
Suggests I’m a frustrated philosopher at heart
In the end it seems
I’m a cautionary tale
Of academic pursuit and origins
A Bachelor of Arts
Who at best epitomizes
Career confusion
Years of divine discontent
And a constant sense of distance
From vocational identity.
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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Aw! Congrats lovely x
Thanks…I actually got my degree a long time ago ad I guess I never really celebrated it at the time, so thank you for your kind words…..These days I wonder if it told me anything at all about who I wanted to be or should be…LOL. 🙂
The problem with figuring out what we want to do is that we don’t really know ourselves enough until our 30’s and 40’s! I’m still not entirely sure 😉
i agree with that
Yep, so do I…LOL… 🙂
At least you don’t have a B.S. Now THAT’S an oxymoron! 😉
LOL…that’s true!! Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
Can sympathize with the dilemma.
Belated congrats on graduation. Kudos for sticking it out.
Sorry. I am half asleep now. Kudos for sticking with it. LOL!
Be well …
LOL..thank you so much, it was a long time ago really, it’s more the resultant confusion about career identity that haunts me, LOL. 🙂
Very nice! I have my BA in nutrition and if it wasn’t for the second set of stats classes I would have probably went for a BA in psychology too I took like every conceivable non stats related course. I took extra medical classes for fun too, I was just all over the place. It took me 10 years to graduate because I wanted to take everything lol
LOL…a friend of mine at university used to say that first year was the best five years of his life because he just tried lots of things before he settled…education is a fine thing, I just think I probably wasted mine a bit. LOL. 🙂
I should have focused a little more on one subject lol, My husband stuck to the same are (he got 2 BAs and 1 masters in the time I got one 1 BA) and has a fantastic job
I did the same thing. I took my time before I settled doing what I’m doing now. But during first year, it was a challenge because I didn’t want to go into something without leaving my options open for other things. So much of first year was an experiment. But well worth it!
Well done – I sort of rushed through my degree as I didn’t like university much…not sure what that says about me, LOL. 🙂 It may be why I’m confused many years later though…a slower and more considered pace might have been a better approach. 🙂
Loved this….but, I am still picturing us flying out of our beds……I am sure it is way better than even I am absorbing!!! Hugs!!
LOL..yes, flying dreams are far, far better than study I think…one (the flying) is a natural high and the other (the study) …well, I don’t know, an unnatural burden perhaps? LOL.