As I begin yet again another new career (my 3rd since venturing from the warm safe protection of the collegian world) I realize that I have always envied people who grew up knowing what they wanted to be, those who at a early age would say “when I grow up I want to be…” I never had that, when I was a kid, I had no idea what even interested me. Of course I had He-Man, but even in elementary school, this did not seem like a realistic future career choice. And once I found out that the military in fact did not have motorcycles with a missile strapped to the side, G.I. Joe was no longer an option. I realize that very few people actually find employment in the field they chose when they were six, even so it must have had some influence on their choices later on in life. When it was time for me to choose a major in college all I knew was that I liked to argue about subjects I could effect very little change about, so I majored in political science. So it’s the age old story, boy goes to college, boy graduates college, boy can’t find a job, boy works at a pizza shop, boy finds a job, gets laid off job, boy reexamines his life as he collects unemployment and waits for a new opportunity to present itself.
Fortunately for me an opportunity did present itself, before I started hitting the bottle. But I can’t help but wonder, what the future holds from here. What opportunities are in store for me? Will I ever be at a job long enough to start putting money in a 401K?

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Matthew Byrd