Thursday, February 16th, 2012...3:10 pm
city year
this past week i submitted my application to city year! gah!
i’ve been thinking about applying to city year for a while now. it kind of fell to the back burner last semester because i had so much going on with school. but now graduation is looming nearer, meaning that the real world is charging at me at full speed. decision-making time.
my trip to el salvador reminded me how much i love doing service work. it really solidified a lot that i already knew about myself, and it made me realize that i am not ready to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life. i want to actively do something. get my hands dirty. make some change happen. i’ve been sitting behind a desk for the past 15 or so years of my life and i have the rest of it to work in an office/firm setting. if i can take this year to do something completely different than i have ever done before and (hopefully) change some lives (including my own) in the process, what the hell? why not?
it’s all happening very fast though, i must say. the end of january i realized that city year could really be something that i do after i graduate. i went to their open house of february 8th. i applied this past monday, and tomorrow i have my first phone interview (there are multiple steps in the interviewing process).
woahhhh. hold your horses.
it’s still february. i have time to decide things. but if i were to get into city year, that’s it. i have to make my decision. that’s a lot of pressure. good in a way that i will be set until june 2013. this summer i can hang out, make money and not have to worry about the job hunt, which would be incredible. but at the same time, it’s one of those “am i sure this is the right choice?” kind of decisions. i’m a double guesser and an over-analyzer, so you’re getting a little peek into my mind right now. lots of things swirling around in there! so as excited as i am, i am a little fearful too. i guess i shouldn’t worry until i find out what happens, right?