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Do you remem­ber the moment you real­ized you just knew what you wanted to do for a career?

For me it was in 10th grade. My Eng­lish teacher started the year out say­ing, “By now you should have some idea of the direc­tion you want to go. You have 1 week to pick some­thing and start writ­ing about it.”

I freaked.

I had never thought about it! I was one of those air-headed take-one-day-at-a-time kind of girl. I barely knew what the word ‘future’ meant.  Plus I had just trans­ferred to that school from a pri­vate school and no one talked about life after high school there.

To be quite hon­est, I guess I knew from the moment she started talk­ing about it.  She even wrote it on the chalkboard.…which almost seemed like fate (like, oh my gosh, for sure!!!)

“Com­mu­ni­ca­tions’

The guy beside me asked, “What kind of job is that?”

She wrote, “Com­mu­ni­ca­tions — broad­cast­ing / jour­nal­ism / pub­lic rela­tions / marketing”

The tin­gle sparked at the base of my brain and ran down my spine. (Yes, I was a loser in high school.)

So I went to col­lege pur­su­ing a degree in Com­mu­ni­ca­tions with an empha­sis in Broad­cast­ing.  I was going to be the next Bar­bara Walters!

Then I dis­cov­ered politics.

Oh no, not the real pol­i­tics. Just the one that slaps a lit­tle real­ity in your world. I hadn’t even fin­ished my first year in col­lege when I found out the pol­i­tics in broadcasting.

No, thank you.

Many, many years later I ended up com­ing back full cir­cle in the com­mu­ni­ca­tion side of things. The whole point of my embrac­ing the idea of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is that I love peo­ple.  Man, there are some wack-a-doodle-doo’s out there…and that’s intriguing.

The under­ly­ing part to com­mu­ni­ca­tion is always the writ­ten and ver­bal word. I do the ver­bal thing all day long, but crave the writ­ten word.  So this year I decided to branch out a lit­tle bit back into that side of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.  This blog has been great for it, but I’ve really lost ‘the touch’ and need to exer­cise that out again.

So I’m writ­ing for Bliss­fully Domes­tic.  My first arti­cle went up yes­ter­day. I’m very excited about it because Bliss­fully Domes­tic is a great orga­ni­za­tion that is ran by some great ladies. I’m thrilled they are let­ting me sharpen my ‘typ­ing pen’ with them.

I’d love any feed­back you might have. I’m a true believer that ‘iron sharp­ens iron’ and any hon­ing is welcome!