Where will you be in five years' time? Five years ago, I was going all over the country, attending open days for university, looking at what I would study, to where I should apply. Five years ago, I was halfway through A levels: chemistry, maths, physics. I suppose my course was already decided by those choices.
Five years ago, on this day, I started a blog. I'm not quite sure why, really. I suppose I was feeling alone and unloved and looked to the internet to solve that. Did I think that five years later I'd still be here? I don't think I thought that far ahead, to be honest. I still can't. There's people with Careers and Goals and Five Year Plans and I'm stuck with a big fat I Don't Know on my forehead. Some may say it's a waste of four years of a science degree to not go into the field afterwards, or at least have some sort of graduate scheme or further qualification in mind. But, as everyone is aware, university is so much more than the academic side so if that's all you take from it, well you're not doing it right.
Never mind. Tomorrow, I graduate and officially become a Mistress of Chemistry. It sounds so much better than a Spinster of Science, don't you think? It's a wonder they don't use gender-specific degree titles...
Happy 5th Birthday, Flix
On the jukebox: Laura Marling ~ Alas, I Cannot Swim - work more, earn more, live more, have more fun.
Happy blogbirthday
ReplyDeleteFive years ago I think I was relieved to be off the dole and working in a bookshop, handling the sci-fi fantasy and crime section which was suitably hidden away where they couldn't notice me satisfying my smell-of-new-book fetish!
In five years time?
Urgh, I have no idea. Headlining Wembley?
Writing is a good career goal to have but it's one that requires a good idea of what to do before you get noticed, and that's always drawn a blank for me.
Career? no idea. I love where I'm working now, but it pays a pittance and I'm going nowhere.
In truth i'm still struggling to get back to the writing, I made a good go of it recently, but problems with my pops have brought that crashing to a halt!
On a lighter note, I'm going to enjoy referring to you as a Mistress Of Chemistry because... well you know how I like innuendoes, and it does sound a bit like a kinky DVD...
Headtwin ftw.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about the '5 years times' thing the other day. Despite being in a career (kind of) I still don't know where I'll be in 5 years.
It also means we've pretty much "known" each other for 5 years.
Happy 5 years Princess J xx
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Happy blogaversary.
ReplyDeleteGoodness knows where I'll be in 5 years.
I do know that I'll probably STILL be doing nothing related to my masters degress (or my undergrad degree for that matter) but I reckon I'll be chugging along just fine.
In five yeras time I shall be nearly 26. There's the ideal-world plan, in my head, but not a real one, not really. Far too contingency-based. Ideally though it involves PhDs and living somewhere where I am happy and being at a more settled point where I can far more easily look five years ahead of that, to where I am nearly thirty-one, and have a far clearer idea of what that will look like.
ReplyDeleteI've read your blog now for what, at least three years. Bizarre.
And - I haven't clicked one of those options this time but the 'tick' 'nod' 'smile' thing is so often a sort of sad knowing and slightly wistful smile, rather than a facebook-like smile. I think this is interesting and rather nice.
Happy fifth blogaversary, Mistress of Chemistry! I look forward with great interest to the day when I know what I'm going to do with my life. When I was six years old, I wanted to be Sherlock Holmes, but something tells me that it's probably not going to work out.
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ReplyDeleteI second this notion
ReplyDeleteI've been living in and out of suitcases and racing along motorways for the past few weeks and the foreseeable future looks headed a similar way, hence the lack of writing. I'm busy being ;)
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