Perfect fit?

[cjsmith]

Word is going around the office that I'm leaving high tech for (hopefully) vet med, and almost every single person who has commented about it has said some form of "that's perfect for you". They can totally see me doing that, they think it's really right for me, they think I'd be great at it, they can't imagine a more perfect fit than me being a vet (that last is a direct quote with the pronoun changed). One even said she thought it was such a good idea for me that she can't understand why I didn't do it when I went to school the first time.

Wow. One or two people might be being nice, but nearly all of them? Maybe there's something to this.

(Also: if it's so obvious, dang!, I wish someone had told me fifteen or twenty years ago.)

Comments

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

wow. that's cool. what a huge vote of confidence! hooray!!!

would you have listened to them 15-20 yrs ago? i know i sure wouldn't've

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I might have. Probably around my sophomore year of MIT I would have listened with great sadness, "knowing" that it was "too late" to make that choice. (Sophomore year is when we started getting letter grades. For years I thought I'd never do any more schooling of any kind because of those grades.)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

i think evilegg's question is the more valid one. i remember how needle-phobic you used to be ... you've come a LONG way in the 11-ish years i've known you.

and i think you're proving that it's NEVER "too late".