Woops.

Hello!  Here I am again, posting twice in the same night!  Why am I doing this?  Well, you may notice that I neglected to post before the due date last week, so here I am making up for it now!  What the heck happened last week, self?!

Always lurking around the corner is a big, furry, purple, polka-doted monster and he's waiting for the moment when it seems I have my life organized.  About once a semester, at the perfect opportunity he will strike by disrupting my routine with a life curve ball.  Last year was when my roommate left the house to seek drug treatment.  The year before I was battling depression.  Every year I try to make things different but the monster is just so sneaky!  I know, I know, I didn't hand in my work in time and here I am now doing a blog post a whole week after it was due!  In the past I have not been able to pick myself up from this type of stumble very easily but this time was different.  I don't know if it is because of the counseling I am getting, the medications, or both (probably both), but that lug of a monster wasn't so quick and I could see him coming.

Over the week of Labor Day I was just starting a new job and had my days thrown off because of the Monday holiday.  All week I basked in the plethora of time I had to complete my work and was feeling mighty good about it.  On Thursday a failed root-canal and pain medication that put me to sleep was the monster's trick to steal my focus.  Unfortunetly, that week he succeeded in distracting me from responsibilities but this time I was able to shake from his grasps before the consequences began to escalate.

How does any of this relate to career development?  The first, obvious, point is that it is neither productive nor sustainable to have a working style that is unreliable and unstable.  Second, I feel there needs to be much better career education in schools.  It's possible that I am having such a difficult time subscribing to the theories we have studied so far because a detailed, in-depth, career education is not something I had ever experienced.  Although impossible to tell, I might have discovered the way to thwart the monster much sooner in life, if my teachers had been focusing on basic skills early in school.  For example, my lack of organizational skills got me in trouble in grade school when I would forget my homework all the time and keep a messy desk.  Maybe I'd be a rich entrepreneur by now if only I could keep my on track 100% of the time.