I am officially 9 months from graduating from college with my Bachelors of Science in Legal Studies! It will have taken me SEVEN years from the time I graduated high school to graduating from college. I have made some poor choices in life that have delayed this process, but I am so glad I finally got back on track to get it done!
We've decided to wait until I have a degree before I start looking for a job, er, career. The economy stinks right now and jobs are limited so having a degree under my belt will definitely help me get my foot in the door and increase that paycheck.
I have no idea what I want to do with myself afterward. I used to have all of these plans but now my priorities have completely changed. Law school is going to be 3 years which puts a big blackout in my "family building" years. I don't want to be pregnant during law school and in order for me to go next fall, I would have to get pregnant now so that I could have the baby and have a couple of months to recover before school starts. I just now got back into a size 6 and would rather not pack on all that weight again.
I like the law but am more fascinated with the politics of the law and history. I used to say that I wanted to have my own political talk radio show like Rush Limbaugh because I am darn good at arguing about these things. I like to say that I am the "Conservative Movement's NEXT Diva". (Ann Coulter has the title of the "Diva" right now). The last time I checked, you didn't need a JD after your name to be a pundit.
There is SOOO much I want to do. It feels like I have this purpose to do something great but I don't know what it is so I keep waiting for it to be revealed to me. But I am so impatient and I hope I don't make a bad choice thinking it was the right one. After my lack of judgment for about 5 years which landed me in hot water, I am petrified of making another bad decision. I have to ask Hector to make all decisions for me now because I am that afraid of it.
Grow up Heather!!!
The plan right now is to graduate in April and start applying to Grad schools in the meantime. I am contemplating getting my MBA or a Masters in Human Resources because that degree is SO powerful! HR's make rediculous money and you use the law in that job too. I have plenty of time to enroll in law school because I'm not even 25 yet. If I enrolled next year, I would be a 29 year old lawyer! I think putting it off a few years won't hurt too much! :)
I am so thankful now though that I have a husband who backs up anything I do. I know he gets frustrated with my indecisiveness but he is all for me being in school and getting as far as I can go. I am so glad that he's a good person and is real...something I have never really been around.
I was talking with my little sister the other day and was telling her that sometimes I wish I could go back and rewind to my senior year in highschool. What I wouldn't give to have those years back. I would have been done with school and I think I could have saved a lot of heartache, figuratively, and literally. But, then I know that if I hadn't taken the route I did then I wouldn't have learned anything. I wouldn't have Hector and definitely not Emily.
Oh what a great return I got!
