Another U2 nut!
Acrobat
I don't know where to go from here. I'll tell you first where 'here' is. I'm nearly 27 years old, and I've just returned to the city of my upbringing after spending 2 years, 1 month and 3 days living in a large remote town. I went there for work in 2005, moving about 1700 kilometres from everything I've ever cared about.
Well, life in this new town was a disaster. It's crime infested compared to where I am now, and I was robbed a couple of times. Then I had to take a real estate agent to court, had 2 psycho flatmates in a row (one tried to commit suicide-bipolar, very sad) and I had a very stressful job as a high school teacher. Add to that, I just couldn't get along in this place. It was small and confining, and people were closed and narrow-minded. People shut me out, and so while I was going through all these terrible things with my family and friends being so far away I had little support.
I was desperately lonely, and because of traumatic events I was on edge the whole two years, until it got to the point where I was headed for a nervous breakdown. Then I approached my boss this January and he put in a transfer for me and gave me leave of absence til next year. The education dept will transfer me into a job in my old city then. I packed up and left this awful town behind me, and now I'm on stress leave and living with my parents.
The problem I now have is: I don't know what job I will do. I don't want to teach again in the foreseeable future because of all the stress and all the crap you've gotta put up with. Yet there are things I loved about teaching like building relationships with the kids and talking about literature, and the fact that the job was never boring. But I cannot- I think of the good things, but the bad things outweigh the good.
So I'm confused. I can go back to teaching or I can try something else. I just don't want to go back to the classroom. But I don't know what else. I don't want to work in a shop or something like that because I will be bored stupid. I don't like holing up in an office either. I have a bad back so I can't do a lot of physical-type work either! I love literature and writing, and exercising my creativity. I need something that's going to not stress me out and send me packing back to the psychologist like teaching (you'd be supprised how many teachers end up in psychologists' offices) nor do I want something that's going to bore me out of my wits.
I'm seriously confused. I'm at the stage of life where I'm not just gonna do any job like I did to put myself through university, because I hated all those jobs. I now feel like I deserve to be able to do something I'm going to like. Problem is, I don't really know anymore...
Thanks for listening to me! Any advice or comments are most welcome.
Well, life in this new town was a disaster. It's crime infested compared to where I am now, and I was robbed a couple of times. Then I had to take a real estate agent to court, had 2 psycho flatmates in a row (one tried to commit suicide-bipolar, very sad) and I had a very stressful job as a high school teacher. Add to that, I just couldn't get along in this place. It was small and confining, and people were closed and narrow-minded. People shut me out, and so while I was going through all these terrible things with my family and friends being so far away I had little support.
I was desperately lonely, and because of traumatic events I was on edge the whole two years, until it got to the point where I was headed for a nervous breakdown. Then I approached my boss this January and he put in a transfer for me and gave me leave of absence til next year. The education dept will transfer me into a job in my old city then. I packed up and left this awful town behind me, and now I'm on stress leave and living with my parents.
The problem I now have is: I don't know what job I will do. I don't want to teach again in the foreseeable future because of all the stress and all the crap you've gotta put up with. Yet there are things I loved about teaching like building relationships with the kids and talking about literature, and the fact that the job was never boring. But I cannot- I think of the good things, but the bad things outweigh the good.
So I'm confused. I can go back to teaching or I can try something else. I just don't want to go back to the classroom. But I don't know what else. I don't want to work in a shop or something like that because I will be bored stupid. I don't like holing up in an office either. I have a bad back so I can't do a lot of physical-type work either! I love literature and writing, and exercising my creativity. I need something that's going to not stress me out and send me packing back to the psychologist like teaching (you'd be supprised how many teachers end up in psychologists' offices) nor do I want something that's going to bore me out of my wits.
I'm seriously confused. I'm at the stage of life where I'm not just gonna do any job like I did to put myself through university, because I hated all those jobs. I now feel like I deserve to be able to do something I'm going to like. Problem is, I don't really know anymore...
Thanks for listening to me! Any advice or comments are most welcome.