Part of the purpose of starting this blog was to document my journey on this thing called life.  What I found over the last several months is that life often gets in the way and I do have time compile the post I would like.  However, when I labeled my blog Finding Amy, I did that because I want to reconnect with myself.  In the years after college I got disconnected with who I really was. Through a series of unfortunate events I realized that I was unhappy with the person I had become.   Since then I gotten back in touch with who I am and now know what I want out of life and most importantly, I am happy.    

What I want out of life is simple … I want to be happy and live life to the fullest.  I want to be surrounded by good, honest, hard working people.   I also want to be able to contribute to society by making it a better place for others.  

Over the last year (and longer) I have been living my life to fullest.  I am doing the things that make me happy – photography, running (working out), traveling, learning, cooking, and spending time with friends and family.   During this time I have been very lucky to meet a pretty awesome guy who has become my-everything and makes me happy like no one ever has. Best of all I have someone to share life with, which makes me happy.  

The one part of my life which I still  trying to flush out is my career.  While I enjoy working in archives and I am passionate about the archives, I am not sure if it completely satisfies me.  I think this is largely because the career field itself does not challenge me and there is little creativity.  For the past ten years it has been a “fun” career and I think that fun factor might no longer be enough for me.   I also believe that over the past ten years I have changed, matured, expanded my knowledge base and overall grown as a person.  Thinking back I might have leaped in head first at the beginning and now I am starting to feel burned out.  With all that said I am very thankful that I have an awesome job and I enjoy what I do, but I am beginning to question is it enough for me or is there something that could make me happier and that I would enjoy even more.  

The other day my mom made a comment to me … you should have went into design work, you always do such a good with those things, regardless if it is in yard, on the computer or just around the house.  I found that comment strange because that was always an interest of mine.  The favorite part of my current job is doing the digitization work … photography of artifacts, editing the photos, metadata and creating the databases.  Thinking back to my college career, after I decided that the medical / biology field was not for me I almost went the way of communication / graphic design but the idea of working in a museum drew me to majoring in history.  I actually never considered a career in archives until I did my internship in 2003 and discovered my natural aptitude for processing and indexing. I think the other part is that I never could find someone to mentor me in the communication/design field where as with the history/archives field I seemed to fit right in and found several great mentors.  The question in my head is, is this a case of “is the grass greener on the other side” or I am actually suited for a different career path?  Would a different career path make me even happier?   Do I just need to take a step back and regroup?  

Thinking about how my life has change I have to admit that my life is very good and I am thankful for all of my accomplishments and for what I have.  I have a loving family, a very special and caring person in my life, a good job, awesome friends, and I get to do things that make me happy.   I have a lot to be thankful for.  

Thus after reflecting I think it is time to step back and regroup …