Until I graduate and until I'm free of debt (if I have any), there will always be a battle between two sides for me. One side is for the money, and the other side is for the experience. We all know that I won't be making top dollar when I start my working career, and I'm okay with that. But until I get there, this tug of war will continue.
What do I mean, exactly? Over the last couple summers, basically whenever I've needed to find work, I've always struggled between looking at places that will pay me good money versus places that will get me good experience. The jobs that are both are often rare and I'm usually not really qualified for them - or at the very least, the people that apply outclass me by a large margin.
I'm glad I took the AIA job though. When I decided to do it, I knew very well that it would mean that I wouldn't have enough money to support my school and living for the next year. I'm doing my very best to stay away from student loans and borrowing money; but sometimes you end up having to choose either experience or pay, and this time I chose the former.
It's been a lot of fun. Even though I know I don't have enough money to go to school, I'm not going to worry about it. I think I'm lucky because I've accepted and learned that money is not going to run my world. I know a lot of people that have money as a defining factor for the way that they live, and I am not one of them. Even if they aren't doing it intentionally, money plays a much bigger role in their life than it needs to. But that's reality, money runs our world and so there has to be some sort of influence on each person.
With all of this being said, I'm halfway through my summer job as a soccer coach. As dark as I've become, I've really enjoyed every moment of it since training started. I think that no matter what happens for the second half of work, this summer will go down as one of my favorites. Easily. One thing that I've really loved is that nothing has really bothered me enough to make me feel any different than I am now. Sure there were some inconveniences and unfortunate things, but I don't think I've had so much joy in being able to do what I love, be active and get paid for it too.
Anyways, tomorrow I'll be driving out to Athabasca with 2 of the other coaches. This week is going to be exciting because it is a huge camp that is sponsored by ministry organizations. So I'm just really stoked to see what's going to happen.
It's been a really fun month of July! I'm excited to be able to continue to mature as a person and to grow in ways that I can't even imagine.
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