Picture it.  The year is 2000.  The world didn’t end.  Computers didn’t rise up and take over humans.  Both of those possibilities would have saved me from making a decision about what to do after high school graduation.  Since that didn’t happen, I did the next best thing (in my mind) I just didn’t decide.  I took the year off.  I hoped on a Greyhound bus with my best friend and 6 days later found myself in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Spent sometime there.  Came home.  Made money.  Partied with friends.  

Then it was that time again.  Time to decide.  This time my parents dropped the hammer.   Go to school or else (the ‘or else’ was never discussed but it scared me nonetheless).   How did I decide?  I surfed the net.  I talked to friends.  I think I might have went to an open house or two (I can’t remember).  Then I found it.  Bachelor of Arts.  Here was a program that didn’t require me to know what I wanted to do.  I could just study what I liked and decide later.  My procrastination skills have served me well my entire life.  I became an ARTIE.  Two years later, I moved across the country and finished my Arts degree at Mount Allison Universities (any Mounties out there??).  

Regrets.  No really.  Although I wish that I would have looked at Business or Education more seriously.  I was terrified of Math and thought that Business was all about numbers (I was wrong, wrong, wrong) and thought Education would bore me within a year or two.

Where am I now?  Well, graduation rolled around again and unable to make a career choice, I decided that Graduate studies was for me.  A MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies (Go Brock G0) offered me the perfect place to explore more ideas, develop more skills and develop excellent management skills.  Then it was back to Edmonton.  Home sweet home.  4 months later, I got a job with MacEwan School of Business and realized that Business was a option for everyone.  Even liberal arts freaks like me.  

Anyway.  That’s how I picked a post-secondary program.  I kept it general and studied what I love.  Fours years after graduating with my BA, I am Managing the Student Services Centre for MacEwan’s BCOM program and loving every minute of it.

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