First post... here we go! Presently, time seems to be going by pretty slow as I await information on my plane ticket to Sacramento. However, looking back, it seems like it was just yesterday that I actually finished my application and sent it in. I guess it's just perspective. So why am I doing this!? Why am I making all these sacrifices (job, family, friends, home, etc) to go spend 10 months volunteering, without the definite outcome of a job or career?
Youth.. it's wasted on the young! NOT ME! I'm only 23, theoretically have no ties to really anywhere, and I want to do what I want to do! I want to help people. I always have, ever since being a Boy Scout or a cadet on the East Granby Fire Department at 16 years old. The AmeriCorps is a great way to help Americans who need it most! Just like with the fire department, the AmeriCorps will be helping people on what they might consider their worst day, EVER. I want to make a difference, in their lives, and mine.
As for the outcome of a job or career at the end of this adventure... well, I'll be working on that as time goes by. I know where I want to end up, career-wise, not location-wise. The path to get me there is what has to be determined. All I know right now is that it is going through AmeriCorps NCCC.
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