My Future Career

I have a lot of things I plan on or want to do in the future. This summer after I graduate I plan on staying home and doing all the fun things that my family has been planning. Once it starts to get cold and all those fun things aren't as interesting to think of doing because of the cold, I plan on going into training for the Coast Guard. It gives me an excuse to live by the ocean, hopefully not in a city though. I hate cities. I could live in a small town next to the city where they station me. That would be nice. I have yet to contact a recruiter about the kinds of possibilities that would be available to me. I do plan on doing that very soon though. I'll even do some research about the things I could get. I would like to be in the coast guard full time, but there is a possibility that I would be placed in the reserves and only work a couple weekends a month or so. If that's the case I'll get a second job which will be okay. I'll get one that I like. I want something to do with animals so it will either be a kind of part time job at a vet's office or full time at a pet store. Or both depending on how busy I will be in the future. Also with any job I get, I would like to be on the night shift because I'm so not an early morning person. I have enough trouble getting up at 6 to go to school.
But anyway, if I like what they have me doing in the coast guard, I will decide to stay, but if I don't really like it too much then I'll go to college and get a degree in Wildlife Biology or Zoology. And if the biology thing doesn't work out too well, I would love to become an astronomer and study space and stars and stuff. It's one very interesting topic for me. To think that there has to be extraterrestrials out there among the trillions of stars and even twice as many planets. Thinking about it makes me even more interested and excited that we are getting closer to finding one of those thousands of earths. The possibilities are endless.
I hope everything works out and that I do get into the coast guard. But it they don't have what I'm looking for or don't really need me then I plan on going into the air force. I kind of want to do the navy also, but at times you get stationed out on a boat for at least 6 months at a time a some point and I couldn't do that. Not because I don't like being out on the ocean, I love that idea. The reason I couldn't do that is because of my cat. She gets lazy when I'm away for more than a weekend and I know she really misses me. And even if I'm away for a weekend I start feeling a little lost because I always wake up in the morning with my cat in my room or waking me up herself. When I'm away I feel kinda strange because she isn't there. I always hear a noise that sounds like a cat for a second and then when I realize that it wasn't, I get kind of sad. Some people look at their kids and would be very depressed if something happened to them. For me, my cat is my child, my baby, so whenever I'm away from her I feel sad that she isn't there. I know it sounds weird to some people but it's the way I feel for my cat. I couldn't stand being away from her for that long. I know I will have to in order to do training for whatever branch I choose to go into, but that is the only six months that I ever want to be away from her until it's time for her to go in hopefully 10 years, maybe 15. That would be really nice. But that's the reason I am iffy on the navy because being out six months at a time, and probably once a year or every two would kill me because even though my parents would be looking out for her for me, I just cant help but think that she might start to move away from me because I'm gone so much and so long. It kills me to think about it and I wouldn't be able to stand it. But that's just me. I know there are people out there who feel the same for their pets. I would love to be out at sea. I would love to get a nice, decent sized sail boat and at least once a year for a whole week, just spend the whole week out on the ocean. And because it's my boat, I would bring my cat with me. She doesn't have to go out on the deck, she is an indoor cat anyway and doesn't like to be outside. That would be nice. I would still love to have that house on a cliff over the ocean with a small path leading down to a private beach. That would be an amazing spot to live. I do plan on having the house a couple yards from the cliffs edge so that a storm doesn't throw it off and destroy it. But it would be awesome to watch the storms come in from the sea.
Okay, back to my career. I have looked at, only quickly at the moment, some of the things that the coast guard would have. They have a lot of cool things that I would be interested in. Hopefully when I contact them they would have those opportunities for me to take. Some of them even include doing stuff for the environment. I would join the coast guard to help with people who are stuck on sinking boats and things, but honestly, I'm not the kind of person who wants to help people. I hate people in general, but obviously I know there are some pretty cool people. There are only a few individuals I actually do hate. But humans I find are in general, becoming really....Let's just say they are not very smart, and there are people who go, "Oh let's go save the planet." but those are usually the same people who don't do it themselves and on days like Earth Day, do the complete opposite of what they should do. I just don't get people anymore. I've tried, but have given up. So the only thing I would go into the coast guard for is to help with the environment. They do things like oil spill clean ups, and other things like ice breaking to help with boats going through. That last part would be way more up north, which would be nice one day, but I think I would prefer staying here in New Hampshire. I either want to live in New Hampshire or Maine. If I had to choose somewhere else I think I would choose Maine. Maybe northern Maine. That sounds nice. It makes me happy to think of all the possibilities that are out there for someone like me. Especially if I decide to go to college through the coast guard or whatever branch of the military I decide to join, I have so much more potential then a lot of other people do. And after 20 years of being in the service I could retire. I could be 40 years old and retired if I decided to stay in the service for that long. I might be slightly off, but it's close enough. That's a long time to be able to do whatever after retirement. It's nice to think about. I'm actually excited for the life ahead of me. And recently I broke up with my boyfriend because I wasn't feeling quite ready for a relationship anymore. Who knows, I may never be, but the thought of being able to do anything without having to think about the other person makes me feel so much more free to go out into the world. I feel bad that I hurt his feelings and had to break up with him, but I'm not going to keep it from doing things that make me happy. So I'm going to put on a big happy face and go out into the world and see where it decides to take me.