My way to happiness

It's time. Opportunity is waiting patiently in the wings and I'm not going to ignore it anymore. Enough of being reasonable and thinking this job is okay for me because it is my first full-time job. This job isn't okay for me. I'm meant to do something bigger, something that will make an impact, and make a positive difference in people's lives.

I have a talent for helping other people sort out their difficulties, specifically when it comes to studying. A girl I know has started a school in my area, and needs help. She mentioned needing "wordclearers", which is someone who works one-on-one with kids who are having trouble in their studies. This wordclearer helps the kids find what it is they don't understand in their studies, and then helps them grasp what they missed. Sometimes it is as simple as the kid not knowing the meaning of a word.

This opportunity is knocking loudly and it is time for me to answer.

No more waffling.

What kind of life would I have if I didn't feel fulfilled? It wouldn't be a life.

And, if I work with her during the day, we can get a tutoring centre going for the evenings, which would primarily be mine.

Things are getting clearer:

a) I am in limbo in the job I am working now. It could remain a full-time job, could drop to part-time, or could fade out entirely. I will know within the next few weeks.

b) I am feeling very confused about my life right now and am going to straighten that out in the near future (starting today). I know that helping people sort out confusions and misunderstandings and helping people see how able they can be is the most fulfilling thing I do, and is something I want to have as part of a job. I have created a bit of a troubleshooting post for myself at my current work, but I'd feel even better being directly involved in the educational system.

c) I know there is a track I need to be on, and when I saw it mentioned that a wordclearer was needed, I felt this was an area I could be effective in, since I already tutor and have tutored at a variety of different places since living here.

d) Being trained as a word clearer would serve a double purpose, as that would boost my tutoring abilities immensely. I could continue to tutor in the evenings and this would satisfy her and my mutual goal of having a tutoring centre that could help kids in the public school and also ideally pull them OUT of the system and into her school.

e) I've been waffling too much and now it's time for me to make a decision. And I think I have.

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Just received via email, my thoughts are echoed:

What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.
— L. Ron Hubbard