#11. Confessions of a Job Seeker – Oct. 2012
This series is based on a design journal that I kept between 09/12 – 02/13. New? Start here.

On a warm fall day, I made my way back to UC Berkeley to visit my professor and afterwards found my way to the bell tower. As I sat there eating fro-yo and watching students scurry by, it struck me just how far I’d come. How far we’d all come. Memories came rushing back and I recalled the dedication with which I’d made plans for my future career.

In the end, it was not the future I chose. My path led me in an unanticipated direction and that was fine. I had acted with intention, working towards a career that mattered to me. At the same time, I had lived with attention, allowing myself to explore a present that felt right and true to who I am. In that moment I kind of knew that everything would be ok. On a whim, I texted a few classmates to tell them how proud I was of them. I knew that we were all doing our best and that in the end the specifics of our goals didn’t really matter as long as we could say that we were proud of how we got there.