Feeling Lost

A lot of people would probably tell you what their blog is going to be about in their first post. I would do the same except I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to be writing about here. I mainly just want somewhere to spew out my thoughts and freshen up my writing skills.

Recently I have been feeling kind of lost as to what I want to do with my life. I graduated a little over two years ago from Old Dominion University with a degree in Electrical Engineering Technology. While I was going to school everyone kept telling me how I was in such a good field and I would be able to find a great job so easily when I graduated. There was just one problem with that, I hated what I was studying. I didn't always hate it. Well, I guess I should say it just wasn't exactly what I was expecting. I may have been slightly mislead as to what an Electrical Engineering Technology degree is. I guess I was expecting it to involve computers more and old circuit boards with massive outdated components less. Anyway, I didn't enjoy it enough to actually seek out a job in that field when I graduated. I hate to say it, but right now I feel like going to college was a huge waste of my time. I have heard so many times that as long as you have a degree of some sort you will be ahead of the game. This hasn't proven to be true so far. Maybe the economy is just too bad right now, maybe I haven't tried hard enough, but either way I have yet to have my degree open any doors.

So here it is, two years later, and I have yet to find steady work. I've done a few computer jobs here and there, but haven't found anything I feel like I could be happy doing for the rest of my life. I have been asked many times what I would do if I could do anything at all with my life. Every time I stop and try and give this question some serious thought. No matter what new crazy idea may be floating through my head at the time I always seem to hover around the desire to be a writer. This surprises people because I have been so technology focused my entire life. "Oh, he works with computers" has been the best way to describe me for quite a while. I really am serious when I say I want to write though. I don't even care what I write, I just want to get stories out there. Ideas swim through my brain every day, but I guess I have either lacked the motivation or belief in myself to get them out. Perhaps this blog will be the first step toward my writing career.

I can't tell you what to expect from this blog but I hope that at least some of my ramblings will be entertaining to someone. I highly doubt every post will be a look into my life like this one. Perhaps tomorrow I will write about my adventures in the World of Warcraft or maybe about the squirrel in my ceiling. Who knows?