30somethingandsearching

I am reading The Alchemist.  I had just read the initial talk about Omens Monday night.

Yesterday when I got the mail, I found a Fall Course Schedule catalog for Wright
College.

I took it as an Omen.

In my search for my career path, I have been considering taking some classes in software that I don’t know or that I’m not that familiar.  I’m job hunting and a lot of the job ads list software I’ve never used, so I thought that would be a good idea.

But that isn’t really leading me to my career path, now is it?  Taking software classes.  Unless, of course, my career path were to be in computers or IT, but it’s not.

For a while now I have been considering law.  I have always enjoyed law and many people have told me throughout my life that I should be a lawyer.  I’m not ready for anything as big as being a lawyer.  However, I have been seriously thinking about becoming a Paralegal, but I figured it wouldn’t be an immediate fix.

So, as I opened the Wright College catalog, I was flipping through looking for software classes when the Paralegal pages fell open.

I took it as an Omen.

I began researching Paralegal studies at three schools nearby; Wright College, Triton College and, my Alma Matter, DePaul University.

DePaul has a link that allows you to view sample materials, exams and support material.  So I checked it out and I think this is my career path. 

In reading The Alchemist, I am wrapping my brain around the fact that people allow fear to hold them back from living the life they are supposed to be living.  I have always known that I have done this, and I will save that for another blog, but any reason I have come up with to not follow a career in the legal field is fear. 

I am looking into Financial Aid and Loans so that I can do this before the Fall term starts. 

I have not decided which school I will choose, but this is my path.  I will follow. 

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