Thinking about it, three years seems an awful long time to wait to go back to school. Will I be wasting these next three years, becoming more and more dissatisfied with a job that I know isn’t part of my future? Maybe we have enough in our savings for me to go to college the year after next instead, applying for January or September 2010 entry so that my 5-year plan can become a 3 or 3.5-year plan…

It’s all very well trying to develop my interests outside of work, but when 40 hours of my week is taken up by work, 56 with sleeping and 7 with housework that doesn’t leave me enough time to follow all the interests I’d like to follow, as well as having some good relaxation time and one-on-one time with SO and see all of my friends once a week. The world certainly does belong to the energetic, but unfortunately for me I’m not energetic enough!

This is in large part why I want to combine my job with some of my interests - as well as making me happier and more fulfilled during the working week, it will mean less things jostling for attention on my leisure and social calendar.