Frustrated and lacking direction with my job and life I decided to quit more or less everything and move to Mexico City in August of 2016. The plan was to teach high school while getting a masters in education despite having no experience or qualifications. Nothing went according to this well thought out plan and I ended up doing next to nothing for a year and a half. The good news is I can cross learning Spanish and living in a foreign country off my bucket list. The bad news is I’m still frustrated and lacking direction. If nothing else, I may have finally learned that running away doesn’t solve my problems.
It’s not a comfortable place to be, but I’ve come to accept that if I don’t know what I want I can at least continue to try new things, adding them to the “that was horrible and now I know I don’t want” pile and moving forward. I took a moment of self-reflection before plunging headlong into a new direction at the beginning of the year. Traveling and dancing are the two constants that I keep in my life and enjoy. I decided my ultimate goal is that whatever else happens, I want to make these as integrated into my life plain as possible. As I don’t see myself becoming a professional traveler and dance instructor in the near future, I had to find a workaround.
Mostly by accident I recently got a remote, full-time position. The job includes taking an intensive six-month full-stack program. I had no idea what this meant either. Basically, if everything goes according to plan, I will know a ton of new jargon in order to sound smart and be able to make websites by August. But it’s hard and I’m discovering that I suck at design, so I’m using WordPress
This takes up all of my free time. As I barely have time to feed and bathe myself I decided this would be the perfect moment to start that blog I’ve always been meaning to write and never got around to doing. I want to chronicle what happens as I travel while working towards becoming a dancer, a developer, and whatever else comes my way.
Welcome to my part travel and part scrub lifestyle blog, with a lot of complaining and 100% aimless wandering.
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