Turning fifty was a huge wake up call for me.
How could I be half a century old and still living in some run down apartment? I work for a local retailer and l have been struggling to put any money in savings.
How can my life have gone so off track? I had planned on getting a degree, landing a high profile job, getting married and having two point five kids. Well, instead of that I am working a dead end job and living like someone who just graduated college. My choices have left me in the situation I am in and so I have decided that my new choices can get me out of it. I know it may sound crazy but as a middle aged woman I have decided to go back to school. Not just any school, a trade school. I have decided to go in a completely different direction and start working with my hands for a change. No more fitting rooms or Black Friday nightmares. When I stopped by the local trade school they told me I should look into the world of HVAC servicing. I never saw myself as a technician of sorts but when I learned that many of the newer systems are computerized and the job didn’t necessarily mean crawling around in basements and under homes I was definitely more interested. I even read about HVAC design and that was even more interesting to me. If I could complete the courses in design and HVAC technology I could hopefully land a job that would be more along the lines I dreamed of years ago.