All Adventurous Women Do.

Oh blog. How I love to leave you for an extended period of time. That way, when I come back around, I see how different things were back in the day. It either makes me really happy or really depressed. Today would be the latter.


It’s been a year since I graduated college. I had all of these hopes and dreams of where I would be after I walked across that stage. Did I think I’d still be working two jobs, one at a bar and one for a company doing not even remotely what I hoped I’d be doing? No. I thought I got the degree which means I’m supposed to get the dream job. If only it worked out that way.

I am currently obsessed with Lena Dunham. Besides the fact that she is amazing and hilarious and everything I wish I could be, she created this show called “Girls” on HBO. It follows Hannah and her friends as they go through their mid-20’s trying to figure out life after college. The character of Hannah really resonates with me. Not that I had parents who ever paid for anything to cut me off and leave me in a sea of despair… but I do have the desire to be some amazing career woman doing what I love and having no way of getting there. I want to live somewhere amazingly trendy like San Francisco or Austin, where people aren’t horrified that I have a few tattoos. I want to work somewhere that feels young, hip, in tune with technology. I want to work somewhere that social media matters, is embraced, and has a conversational feel as opposed to “let’s use Twitter to make people buy our stuff.” The hardest part is that it’s a growing medium for businesses to use and it’s hard to find anyone in the good ole’ Midwest who is as passionate about it as I am.

I turned 25 at the end of last year. Everyone around me is figuring out their lives. Getting married, having kids, buying houses. I feel like there must be something wrong with me because I’m still not ready for that yet. Who said just because my parents moved me to the Midwest means that I have to settle in the Midwest? Maybe no one will hire me in another state because it’s easier to hire a local (which has happened to me…after 5 phone interviews…with the same company). Should I have let that stop me from pursuing my dream job and a life outside of the bubble I live in? I know I need to be realistic about what can and can’t happen for me, but when did it become okay to stop dreaming?

Basically I have decided that it is ridiculous for me to think I’m too old to keep my dream alive. So what if I never get that dream job…it’s a lot easier to stomach if I tried my hardest to do it. I don’t want to be ten years down the road wondering “what if?” I’m tired of just assuming things will never change for me. I’m ready to work. I’m ready to strive. I’m ready to live.



Watch out world. I’m back.