After having been out of school for a year I decided it's time that I go back. I enjoyed my time working with children who have severe Autism spectrum disorder, but my hours weren't great because it was an after school assistance program, and I did almost as much driving as I did working with the kids. I decided I wasn't making enough money for how much time I was putting in and made a huge change. Right now I work for UPS sending international parcels. Yes you read that right... A young woman with her bachelor's degree in psychology works at a package delivery company. I love this job; my coworkers and supervisors are great and there's always something new to learn.
Anyway, since UPS will pay for me to go back to school, I decided that there's no better time than now to go back and get a degree in something I really want to do. I've decided to try my hand at interior design classes. I've always had a love for design shows and seeing how things transform from old to new, and I've started to enjoy the process of redesigning my place as well. It's something I've always had a knack for and an interest in pursuing. The hardest part will be the drawing portion, which I personally think I'm terrible at (though not as absolutely horrible as I am at drawing people).
I decided I will only get an Associates because the only benefit to the Bachelor's degree is that you spend two less years (worth of hours) having to do on the job training before you are able to apply for your own license. Personally, as much as I love going to school and would pursue a Bachelor's if it was really worth it, I don't see why I should spend more money on a degree when I could use that time in the field to better prepare myself to be on my own.
I'm hopeful to be learning something I want to continue doing for the rest of my life, as well as to cultivate my own personal style and better understand what I would want my own home to look like. I hope to learn residential as well as commercial design so that I can be a more versatile and well-rounded designer as a whole. I am excited to see what I come up with as designs with unusual objects and patterns and how I mix together my love of antiques with the more modern pieces of today.
There may be the possibility to either go learn to be a realtor or a contractor as well in order to further my reach in the industry, and both of these ideas sound like fun, but I don't particularly have a desire to be a part of the buying and selling of the properties beyond the staging point. It would be useful to go to school for long enough to understand what common problems look like in homes so that I am informed, but that would likely not be all that helpful in my career. However, being a contractor my be a benefit to me since I will be able to hire people in order to complete larger projects in the homes as well as to fix problems encountered along the way. I would also be able to do some of the smaller projects likely on my own with the proper training which would be a lovely perk for some clients who want minor cosmetic work done to the house as part of the design.
A new road is before me, and I am all kinds of excited to see where it takes me and what awaits me at the end.
