I am young, therefore I can change my mind as many times as I want without worrying about wasting time just as long as I am pursuing a direction I think I’ll be fine.
I was thinking one day, would it be more logical to build up my career little bits at a time or take one big leap? Which would be more logical for me? I decided that since I do have the financial resources, opportunity and the time that I should just take the big leap and get this school business over with!
I figure that it would take me about two semesters to complete medical receptionist, perhaps three in all reality. Three semesters equals about nine months, give or take and the outcome to work as a medical receptionist would be a pay increase of maybe two-three dollars starting? Ew. Medical billing and coding would take me further about three MORE semesters to complete that and my salary wouldn’t be guaranteed by much higher than that starting. (also, I will have no degree in anything) After a long long time of experience then I could get up to twenty-five dollars an hour MAYBE if people still want to hire me for that much when I get out of school. Yes yes, the economy sucks but I deal with it.
The timing for my executions couldn’t have been perfect. Shortly after applied for school my work comes out with a memo announcing a huge Medicare cut which greatly effects our facility by 17%. Our facility is highly dependent on Medicare and some of it is private pay, but seriously, who is that rich to shell out a few thousand dollars on the fly for rehab. That’s not most of America for sure.
My conclusion on my “big leap” is that I think I want to be a paralegal, or in the words of David Nomanomaya, (incorrect spelling xD) I will be a super secretary! That’s basically what they are when I think about it. I am 3/4ths of the way there and currently rocking out a 3.8 GPA. After school I will be transferred across the water to an accredited paralegal program. I will be going to school there for one or two years. I hope to rush it and make it about a year and a half or less. I need to talk to a councilor again because I do not know the more accurate time of completion.
I thought of how paralegal will start putting things together and how it is closely related it is to things I already like. I was contemplating how easily I could get minors in things relating to my job. If I were to major in something for law I could easily minor in accounting, business, communications and something in computers that I haven’t thought about yet. Oi, the joys of school and continuing education. 
I think/hope I stick to this plan because I just want to know what I am best fitted for and go for it. I just want to love my job I choose and I don’t want any more of this flip-floppyness. I know that a job or a career isn’t that permanent and there will always be education to move up levels and change jobs but I want something to finish so I can be fully stable without my parents and move out already. Since I am going to school over the water I am probably going to move out alright anyways. I am sure as hell that I am not going to commute across the water every day for 15$ both ways!? Plus, there are bigger and better paying hospitals I can apply to like Children’s Hospital or something. There are only good options out there.
