Blog Every Day in May

"We go now and never come back.
We're going to write a brand new story."
- Faber Drive; Life is Waiting

I'm jumping on the "Blog Every Day in May" ship! Don't know what I'm talking about? Click on the lovely button for more info!

Now onto today's topic:

Day 2, Thursday: Educate us on something you know alot about or are good at. Take any approach you'd like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)

Where's 'Day 1' you ask? Basically, I plan to use some of the prompts offered, but not all. As much as I'd love to tell you all the story of my life (Day 1's topic), I already had a post planned for yesterday and I'm not up to writing two posts a day. Moving onto this one!

What the heck am I good at? Oh yeah, writing.

As many of you know, I graduated from University with a degree in Professional Writing. But, if you know anything about writing, you know that unless you kiss a lot of ass know the right people, it's not easy to make money as a writer. Which is why with my degree in writing, I now work full-time as an Administrative Assistant for a private investment firm. Yesterday, I spent a good hour doing overlays on graphs and creeping on blogs answering phones. That's my writing degree for you; hard at work.

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This is actually part of the reason why I started blogging. I love writing but it's not like I'm going to make a career out of it anytime soon. It's something I've learned to accept and I'm more than happy working on a different career path. Oh, and just so you know, publishing a novel is definitely something on my bucket list; although it's not something I'm ready to explore at the moment, be prepared to line up at the bookstore to get your copy when it comes out!

To sum it up (because I really don't want to make a super long blog post), if I've learned anything, it's that it doesn't matter what your degree is in. You'll probably (not always) end up doing something else with it anyway. So don't beat yourself up if you're not exactly where you expected to be in life. There will always be ways to follow your passion: one way or another.