^This is literally the title of a running list I have been keeping since I started it my sophomore year of college.
Ever since the travel bug got me and I knew I had to experience life in other corners of the world! Some of the ideas on this list include:
Never did I dream that the first way I am going to work and live abroad would be the path I am currently on. I guess the pandemic was good for one thing, and that is normalizing remote jobs, even if it did put my life overseas on pause for a couple years. The possibility of having a remote job was never made known to me during undergrad, I thought I would either get a chemical engineering plant job or go to dental school and work at a clinic, and that would be it the rest of my life. I really thought the only way to make my dream a reality was to take a few gap years “while I’m young” and sacrifice by working a job that didn’t suit me just to live where I want to live. I used to google “How to get your TEFL certification with engineering background” or “apartments in Sydney” as if I was going to move there alone (kudos to anyone who takes this route because this was the scariest of them all). Now I’m not downing any of the ideas on this list! In fact, I hope they are able to give someone out there in a similar position to 20-year-old me some inspiration. And who knows, they still sound interesting to me, so I might try them out down the road. All of this is just to say, sometimes what you think is impossible really is possible. I get to remain in a career that is fulfilling to me, challenges me, and allows me to grow my skills while still getting to experience the wonders of the world – no gap year and no more school or other needless struggles involved. I will absolutely still babble on about travel blogging and the travel influencers who first got me hooked on the industry (looking at you @Aggie). I am hoping to make a space for those with backgrounds similar to mine – who know they have a lot to offer the world and just have no idea how to begin. I believe the best way to begin is simply to take the next right step. I constantly have feelings of anxiety and overwhelm when I think about how I am going to fit in X Y and Z before I’m 25, 30, and so on. But each time these feelings flow in, I try to remind myself that I only have to make the next decision that feels right for me in that moment. If it doesn’t turn out, then hey – there’s always this list to come back to :)
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