It started with ambition

I am ambitious. I say that to myself every day as often as I can. To remind myself that I must follow my heart and pursue a life of passion.  Let me tell you a little about myself.

I was a young lady that believed that I wanted to create a career for myself in which I would be easily able to begin a family. Until I recently I thought it to be a priority.  I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. Which is why I was so obsessed with finding the one, being in a relationship- because it was the one thing I knew I did want. 

 I thought I wanted to fight for social justice- I just wasn't sure how. Having fought for social justice the last few years, I realized I needed more direction than I had given myself.  I created an interdisciplinary degree based on business, workplace and people. Why? I'm not sure. I'm not passionate about business. I am passionate about people and community. Which means that the last four.25 years of my life weren't a waste.  I got a lot out of my bachelors degree- personally I needed it, to justify the feelings that I felt as a person of color. I will use it- because my perspective of the workplace - whatever workplace that is - is defined by what I studied. 

I got a lot of my major but at the end of my undergraduate education I felt unfulfilled. I have no desire to be in a part of corporate america. I don't have a particular liking to the non-profit world.  My next "natural" step would be to get my masters in public administration or get my MBA.  However, the thought of either leaves miserable. That would be submitting to the fact that I will be working towards a career that harbors no significant passion within me.  My passion lies in my desire to help communities of color.  But until recently I couldn't figure out exactly how I wanted to do this.

And so one day after explaining to my mom healthy fats on the back of the label she said, "You should have become a nutritionist."  My response came naturally, "ya I wish I had." And then she said three precious little words that may have opened my eyes and allowed me to make the best decision of my life, "Why don't you?"

This blog will document my journey is trying to reach my dream. There are many of obstacles in the way. 

1) Masters programs say bachelors degree with science preferred

2) I have to take science... more specifically chemistry.. which I have avoided my entire college life

3) I'll also have to take math, another set of requirements that I have avoided 

So let this be the big breathe a person takes before jumping.  *BIG BREATHE.. taken*

I will be documenting everything I do from now until then.  What is then? Well to be real, I want to blog all the way to the end. I want to blog while I begin my journey to prepare myself, educate myself to be in the masters program. I want to blog while I'm in the masters program. and I want to blog as a licensed dietician. and lastly I want to blog while I'm abroad, doing my part to save the world.