The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Well, technically, I am not 40, nor am I a student, but I will be both soon enough.

I am 38 years old and looking at my life(mid-life crisis I guess). I look back and I do not see anything that I have finished! I flunked out of college the first time, with a whopping .7 GPA(thank goodness for band!), I was kicked out of the army for being too fat, and I was "fired" from my first job after the army. Also, my first marriage ended after ten years(second one is going great though.)

Now, all that being said, I am a productive member of society, I am not a dead beat Dad, and I have a job. Actually I am the Assistant Plant Manager. I feel that I am overworked and underpaid, but then who doesn't? I am married to a wonderful woman who takes very good care of me. We have 4 children(2 are hers, and 2 are mine) and enjoy an "above average" lifestyle.

Upon close examination, I realized that my career is going nowhere. I will be climbing neither the corporate ladder, nor the income ladder, in any significant steps. I have sat back, analyzed my life, and decided that it was time to move on to something else. Yes, this is the first time that someone did not decide for me. Now the only question is what to do? I have settled on the medical field for reasons that I am sure that I will discuss at a later date, but am having trouble deciding between Radiography(X-Ray Tech) and Nurse Anesthesistststttsss(I think that is how it is pronounced.)

Nurse Anesthesia is a much longer program, but with much better pay in the long run. It also has the drawback of not getting accepted to a school for CRNA after my RN school. But I am not sure that x-ray will hold my interest for the next 40 years, but then my wife and I can travel and take 13 week assignments in the future.

Yes I said 40 years. I have accepted the fact that the letter that tells me how much Uncle Sugar is going to pay me when I turn 67 is sent for the purpose of making me feel better about the money they are taking from me to pay for my parents Social Security.

Anyway, that is a brief introduction to me and my motivation. I will post to this blog on occasion, whenever I feel that something important; or unimportant, but deserving comment; has happened in my life or the world. This is not going to be so much a catalog of how to go back to school, but just the humble opinion of an everyday Joe. Call me a plumber I guess. I will discuss politics, religion, life, and anything else that strikes me as needing to be fixed in the world.


In short it will be the forum for my “If I were King of the world!” ideas.

Who knows, maybe some of you will agree with me. I know a lot of you will not, but that is what makes life fun, the debate.

I hope that your loves fulfill you, and that you have wonderful days until the next time!