The sun is still shining over my little piece of the world; it’s been there for six or seven days straight now; which is nice, and as it happened, I had booked Thursday and Friday off work as holiday! Perfect timing, not only for the weather but also because I really needed the downtime. Being able to break the monotony if only for a few days has given me time to relax, and strengthen a mood dangerously close to happiness that currently rests over me.
It has also given me time to spend money, something I seem to be doing a lot of recently. I did limit my spending to clothes and books on this occasion, which I think can be passed of as necessities! I should really finish reading the books I already own before buying more, but if I see one on a subject that interests me I can’t stop myself from buying it. Currently my interests are engaged with the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the English Civil War, which were the subjects of all but one of the books I picked up. (The one being Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams)
Something else I have had time to do is consider my future. It must be all too apparent to regular readers that I have felt increasingly lost, confused and unhappy with the state of my life in recent months – I have bemoaned the situation and it’s various causes all to often. But I have been acting on those causes as well as bitching about them, and changes have been made, bringing with them small victories; each aiding me along the path back to this happy little state of mind I currently rest within.
Throughout this period of change I have on occasion given thought to switching careers, from finance to teaching. In fact, I have thought on it numerous times over the past two years, but have always brushed it aside as I had no time to retrain.
I now have time, and having spent more time talking about it recently, with friends who teach, I have started to pay more attention to the thought. I have been building up to making a big change in my life all year, but have not been sure what change would be. Perhaps this is it. I love history and literature, and can think of no better career than one in which those subjects feature heavily, and I am able to share my knowledge and enthusiasm.
It is definitely something I will now be considering seriously; I’ve already collected some information on the various ways to go about training and will spend the rest of the weekend looking into it. I have also been looking into taking a couple of advanced language courses to tidy up my French and German, perhaps I could teach abroad?
That would be some time off, best start with getting the training first!
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