This week gave me a lot to think about. Yesterday I scheduled a meeting with my advisor to pick up minors in women's studies and literary studies. I'm so excited to explore all of these areas of my interests (and hopefully discern a career too), but I'm just starting to sense the difficulty of my college workload, and I know it's only going to get harder. Of course there are also the tasks of managing finances, a social life, and maintaining my relationships back in Portland. Am I taking on too much, or am I pushing myself for my own benefit?
Coincidentally, one of our speakers in last weeks class was a female executive coach with an extremely lucrative career, a functional family, and friends. She also managed to be feminine and cheerful, a feat considering how hard she must work everyday maintaining the delicate balance of her life. I can only assume it's because her life, while busy, is incredibly full. She taught us all valuable lessons she had learned during her many years in business, many of which I know will serve me as I begin my career and throughout my professional and personal life. What impacted me most though, was seeing a woman who had assumed to many roles and had handled it all even when she may have felt challenged by her ambition.
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