While some schools are on Spring Break (SP) this week, several more will not begin theirs until next week. Our campus is currently on SP mode, and it has been so quiet around here. Almost too eerily quite, especially in the new area of campus where I am now situated. Before, at the Falcon Center (a.k.a. Falcon Zone), I at least had four other colleagues who are considered "staff," so they were usually working during SP week. Now that I am in the counseling hallway and next to the literature & language and history departments, which consists mainly of professors and students, I am the lone wolf, per se, in more ways than one. My job is categorized as "staff," so I am a staffer mixed in with the academia peeps. LOL. I once did p/t work as an adjunct faculty member and an SI and was categorized as "faculty," but since moving to student affairs from student success, I am a staffer. None of this really matters. I have a job that makes me happy, but most of all, I have my masters degree, which is my most prized possession. Had you told me 20 or even 10 years ago that I would have returned to college and obtained a bachelor's degree, I would have said you were crazy. Had you told me that I would go on to earn a master's degree, I would have insisted you get your head checked. Man, time went by so fast yet so slow. But, I am here. There are still times when I panic as I ponder my future, but if there is anything my psych and counseling education taught me, it is these three things (mostly based on humanistic [Rogerian being my fave] and Gestalt schools of thought): live in the here and now, do not worry about tomorrow, and focus on what makes me happy.
