Can I be a snake-breeding, table-waiting professional crocheter?
Maybe consider your dilemma in terms of whether you want your job to reflect your wide variety of interests, or whether you should get a job that doesn’t tax your energy too much, but allows you more quality free time to pursue your interests outside of work. Or, you could play both sides of the fence: That’s kind of how I landed in librarianship. At 19, I dropped out of college after a year because although I liked the educational aspect of it very much, I didn’t see what the point of spending all that money was unless I was going to use my formal education toward a career. After living in the “real world” for a few years, bouncing around various jobs while exploring the world around me, I decided on an undergraduate major (film production). I earned the degree, but for reasons somewhat beyond my control, I was unable to pursue a viable career in filmmaking. I was, however, able to go back to school for a master’s, so I decided upon library science. I reckoned that at best, I would be
