A Wish Your Heart Makes 9

Well hello lovely people! I've been musing over some of the bear necessities of my job search.

I feel like my souls has been bitten by a little senioritis bug and I am slowly recovering and realizing that , yes, there is still work to be done before graduation comes.

My job search is in a really bizarre place...and I don't know how to verbalize it. Yet, the overall question I am grappling with is where my next job is located. Where is the next place I will call home.

This is a really huge question for me because I believe in community and I want the next place I live in to be a wonderful, loving community of friends and loved ones. My memories of my first job out of undergraduate have planted a seed of excitement in my community deprived soul. I remember my first few months being lonely and depressing filled with evenings listening to NPR by radio and listening to mice make their ways through my walls. And then (poof) one day I just met this amazing group of people and the place I had been became home. It was great to be able to have this gaggle of friends to chat it up with and be silly with. I loved the city I was in and its offering of rich experiences just waiting to be enjoyed. I was truly sad when I left but many of my friends were vagabonds and leaving our home behind as well. I knew I would now have homes all over the place, AND I DO!

So, now, as I look for my next home I am trying to anticipate what kind of community I will be able to build there. Let me just say this: the job search requires one person to be a mind reader and a psychic. I have neither of these talents and feel a slight level of anxiety when I think of all of the uncertainty that awaits me in the next few months. That aside, community is at the front of my mind. Both the community I work with and the community I live in. I have this wonderful knack of attracting the most wonderful and loving people into my life and so I believe that the next place I land does hold some great relationships.

This thought process has just reminded me that I am looking for more than just a new job; I am looking for a new home....that is all!