find a career that makes me happy

So I have set myself a long term goal to escape cubicle life by Christmas of 2009. About a year and half of saving, building my business and setting myself up for sucess!

I’m trying to get everything together and start selling items on Etsy. This might just be a career making a living doing something I love! Cross your fingers for me!

I started looking into an online Masters in Library Science that is approved by the ALA, I can get my masters in a year, two if I go part time. it would be perfect for me, but I wouldn’t be able to start until Summer ‘08. The plus side is that the classes are at night, so I can still work during the day. I have a while to figure out if this is as good as it seems to me but it sounds like being a librarian will combine the best parts of teaching with a love of literature. Yea!

am I going to even know it when I see it?

I love working on new plays and working with the writer to make their ideas more solid and the whole workshop process. I’d love to be a literary manager but that again is like anything in theatre that you have to work at it for free for so many years before you might actually start getting paid to do it. So here I go, I am starting working at it for free, maybe 10 years from now I will be getting a paycheck from it.

I got the idea today that maybe what I’d really like to do is event planning. I am super organized and detail oriented and I like planning theatre events,... so why not event planning? I’ve been doing some research into the ins and outs but it definately seems like I’d need a car (something I haven’t felt the need to get due to the convenience of public transportation in Chi-town). But it would be very rewarding as I am definitely one of those people who likes to see the fruits of my labor before me. Crazy stressful at time I’m sure, but I deal well with that sort of thing.

I was walking around all these small boutiques in Roscoe Village over the weekend and I was noticing that scarves and knit hats that are incredibly simple to make are being sold for $100 or more. I looked at them and they are the simplest of stiches, well made- yes, but simply done. I was thinking that if I can hook up with one of these boutiques and make knit items for them I could live quite comfortably, knitting all the live long day. Or at least maybe supliment an income from a part time job instead of working in an office 40 hours a week.

I hate having nothing to do at work. I want to run a theatre… I need grad school first. I thought about teaching, but Chicago’s public school’s are such a nightmare, nothing like where I went to school. I’ve thought about moving to Italy and living very poorly but happily as a barista, but I can’t imagine moving so far from my family.