The question of what I should be doing as a career hangs over me meaningfully, as though there is a clear and easy answer yet... there isn't. I'm not yet sure what kind of career I'd like to put several years of my life into qualifying myself for, and I'm already 24. The choices are interesting, to say the least: There's a one year access course I can do which would qualify me to start a Medicine degree; there's trying to get on a History degree with an extra year bolted on the end for teacher training; or some kind of politics or business degree. A history degree, even with the teaching year afterward, would last only three years because I'd be able to use my credits from my last university course to skip the first year. Medicine could lead to a rewarding career in either diagnostics or anaesthesia. Politics would, oddly enough, qualify me for at least low ranking jobs in government, potentially leading to me running in elections someday. All three would qualify me to join the army as an officer and possibly pursue a career along those lines.

My interest in history is primarily of the military variety and includes a great deal of poring over battle-plans and reading accounts of battles. Additionally I do have the capacity for psychological detachment necessary to remain controlled and calm under stressful circumstances, having worked in an operating room before and seen people die and been moved but undisturbed by it. Something that is important to me is being in the same place is my better half, a woman who's been my lover and loyal best friend for over two years now.

Don't fret that the writing is falling by the wayside. Until next summer it takes top priority, but by next autumn I should probably already be on either the access course follwed by medicine; the history degree followed by teacher training; or politics, possibly followed by said training... these three paths all lead to things I value and want. Now. But in the future? Just throw suggestions at me; I don't much care what your feelings about suggesting things to other people are. Just do it, as the commercials say.