Living Life One Moment at a Time

About a month ago, I started working for a non-profit organization that specializes in historic preservation and in revitalizing economically impoverished neighborhoods and communities.  I started there as an intern for my “United States Public History” course at Salem.  In just a month, I have learned more about history than my entire college career and believe me, it’s been years.  I am so grateful for coming across this position because it has landed me a job when I graduate in a month and half.  I am also going to Auburn University to help with a project my boss is apart of in Alabama, even though it goes against everything I believe in to even set foot near Auburn.  I am writing grants for funding.  I am writing strategic plans.  I am creating what-it-could-look-like pictures and presentations that are taken before city councils.  If you would have told me at Christmas last year that I would be where I am now, I would have called you crazy.  I love what I am doing.  How many people can say that about their jobs?  I hope that one day, I own an organization that does the same things and gets as much recognition as the one I work for now.  I have finally stopped worrying, stopped searching, and stopped obsessing over what I want to do when I graduate because I have found it.  Now all I have to do is get a great score on the GRE so I get a masters in historic preservation.  Wish me luck.