Going back to school for my Master’s degree was not in my original plan. Actually, I guess my original plan was to stay in school straight through, going from undergrad into a masters or a doctorate program. But as I began my senior year I was diagnosed with endometriosis and my plans quickly changed. I had been fighting the pain and issues from the disease for months leading up to the diagnosis, and finding out that I had something that could impact my ability to have children in the future made me reevaluate how quickly I wanted to join the working world and become financially stable. Nick and I wanted to get married and start a family, but first we needed real jobs. So after finishing my Bachelors in Biology I found a job in a local environmental lab. It was a job that I loved, but not one that I ever intended to have. When I originally got my degree in Biology it was with the desire to work in a medical field, not an environmental one.
It wasn’t until after I had Henry and I switched jobs to a new environmental lab that I realized I was interested in going back to school and pursuing a career in a more medical focused field. I had been in the private sector for five years, and knew that if I wanted to change directions now, I needed to continue my education with a Master’s degree. So that is what I did, starting slow at first. I was working full time with husband and a one year old at home, so I signed up for a single class. Truly at the time I wasn’t sure I would complete a degree, I just wanted to test the waters. Turns out, the water was just fine.
Eventually I picked up the pace, taking multiple classes at a time, and now I will complete my Master’s degree this May. It actually blows my mind that it is happening. That I looked at my career, that I knew I wasn’t happy with where I was going, and I made this life altering change to go back to school. And you know what, it wasn’t as hard as I expected. I have always enjoyed school, but there is no question that my undergrad was challenging. I was young, I was distracted, I was studying so many different things all at once in order to complete my degree...it was not easy. But now that I am studying specifically in a field I am passionate about, I find that I enjoy my classes in a way I never have before. And that fact allows me to feel confident that I will love working in this new field. And loving what you do is worth the effort of going back to school, even as a busy wife and mother. It hasn't been easy, but getting to do something you love for the rest of your life is worth the effort.
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