Did you know that I have been out of school for all most a year now. Scary I know. Well recently I have been thinking about it a lot. My future, my past and where I am today. I believe that working over the last year has been an excellent decision. I say decision not because if I wasn’t working I would be lazing around at home, but because if I wasn’t working I would have gone and done some sort of schooling. I think that would have been a bad decision, over the last 4 years I have had no idea what to do in life. Go do a trade in something I don’t really like, go do 2 years getting a degree I don’t want, I had no clue.

Having finished school and not gone right back into it puts you in a simulated version of real life. Yes I worked a full time job and took it on like any other person but I didn’t quite have the same responsibilities at home. No Mortgage, Heat, Electrical bills or even food for that matter, just simply my phone and truck. Deciding to take out some money to buy a semi decent truck at the age of 16 was one of my wonderful learning experiences. I borrowed some money and I had to pay it back plus interest. Okay I will do it and I am doing. At the time I was in school and only working part time so my payments are small and so for that fact 2 years later I’m still paying it but no matter. I have learned many thing with this truck and loan. I learned how to expect the unexpected and how to properly deal with it instead of blaming it on others. Trucks brake, it happens there is nothing we can do about it. I learned how to manage the money I had so if something did happen I was able to get it fixed in a timely manner with out being stranded, now these fixes have been minor but they prepare you for the worst.

Having been thinking about school a lot I realize how much I do miss it. I know they say you don’t know how much you actually liked school until your out of there but I did. School was fun for me, I like challenges. I was by no means paper smart. I didn’t take the top English or Math classes instead I did the Applied classes. In grade 12 I seemed to really do well in them. In my English call I had one of the best teachers in my opinion. For reasons I can’t explain I could just understand him better than other teachers. I shared his views on things, like being on time class. Man, that guys was is my idol. I seemed to always have an answer or an opinion for him. He is who I want to be someday, someone with class and style but still not afraid to get his hands dirty and do anything to get a job done. Thank you Mr.Curren!

Onto math, this was odd. I don’t think I was smarter than anyone else in the class but because for some strange reason I understood it better than the teacher I was able to surpass many of the mates. We were working with these child like workbook and the teacher seemed to not really go through it before teaching our class therefore she was much like us. I would fly through lessons with decent grade and get ahead of the class and then relax.

The reason for me thinking so much about all this lately is that I have decided to more or less go to school in the fall. I am looking in to taking a Business Management course which will only take me one year. It will be a big step for me not because it is school but because I will be going into something I don’t know and I will have to adjust out of my comfort zone for a short while. Not only that, it is a tough decision for me to make about what to go to school for.

It will be fun. “Live life with no regrets”