My Highly Ambitious Life Plan.

I've never been one for thinking ahead. Even when it comes to the littlest of things I tend to leave them until the last minute before making a final decision. For example, this morning, I wasn't quite sure as to what I wanted for breakfast before it was sat there in front of me. I guess I must have known a little bit before then, as I had to make it, but there was still the thought in the back of my mind of, "Well, maybe I would prefer cereals..." Some of you may call this lack of planning mere indecisiveness. You'd be right. Decisions are constantly changing themselves in my head meaning it is somewhat tricky to come to a conclusion long before the act actually happens. However it has occurred to me recently that now might be a good time to get my arse into gear and decide on just what I'd like to be doing with my life in a few years time. It would be far too easy to sit back and let it come to me. I could settle for a below par job doing something vaguely related to what I'm interested in and probably get by just fine. But I don't want to get by just fine. I want to be the best I can be and that sort of target requires effort. Initially the sound of this word, "effort" put me off a little bit, but after a few weeks of doing nothing (seriously, nothing at all,) I decided that I actually quite enjoy the work that would be involved in securing my dreams and that it probably wouldn't be all that bad if I just got on with it.

So, I hear you cry, what are these big dreams that I keep going on about? Well for a start I absolutely must at some stage in my life own a VW Camper-van. This is a necessity. But in order for me to get to that stage I may have to earn enough money to fund it. The way I'd like to earn this money is by working in advertising. Shock there, I know. Anyone who has seen some of my work in the past two years might have come to the conclusion that a career in advertising was the last thing I could want, har har. But no, not only have I decided that the degree I'm doing has something to do with the future I want, I've also decided what area of that future I'd like to be involved in. A recent project involved me and some others colouring in a bit of a road in town, making it all yellow and "Wizard of Oz-esque." I enjoyed doing this so much that I now intend to base by whole life around it. Not so specific that all the work I ever do will involve giant sticks of coloured chalk and a pair of red shoes, that would leave me with a fairly narrow market, but I would very much like to be working in the ambient world of the area which I am currently studying. The idea of doing things slightly against the grain excites me. I've already gone against the grain most of my life, so I figure it I can get a career out of it, all the better.

I've also figured that I'd quite like to do all of this in America. I'm fairly bored of the English weather by now and there are a tonne of opportunities for a quirky Brit to do well over the ocean and I want to make the most of at least a few of them.

It wasn't until a few months ago that I realised this is what I wanted to do. Just like it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I realised I wanted to be in advertising at all. So far the latter has gone ok (I haven't failed anything, yet...) and if I pick my balls up from the floor and get myself into the right frame of mind, I'm fairly confident I can achieve anything I want to. I just need to actually do something about it instead of hoping it happens by fluke. Things tend not to work that way.