1. Grad School

About a year and a half out of undergrad, I had two major realizations:

1) I love administrative work, and that love is no less real than my love for film, music, or the arts in general.

2) It's really dumb not to take advantage of the UW Tuition Exemption Program.  I could be going to grad school for practically nothing.

So I started looking into it - what different kinds of graduate programs the UW had that might be appropriate for me.  First I looked into the business school, and went to one of their recruitment meetings.  One meeting was all it took to send me running for the hills - I just do not care about selling myself that much.  Also, Foster has an insanely good MBA program that only accepts about 100 students a year, and I knew I did not have the drive to try and fight my way into that.  Remember, I was going back to grad school mostly on the idea that I could, so I should - not because grad school had ever been a major life goal for me.

When I rolled across the Evans School program, and the fact that you could get a degree in "Public Administration," I knew I was probably on to something.  I had a one-on-one with the incoming student adviser at the time, but it was really the pamphlet in the lobby that sold me.  In the back was a list of the places that previous graduates had done their internships, and one of those places was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  YES.  This was apparently the school where one could learn the skills to get them employed in an administrative job in an arts organization, which is really what I was after.  I love all administrative work, but after years at APL, I've realized that I would get a lot more enjoyment out of my job if it was in a field that I actually cared about. (Sorry, science.)


TBC


Living on my own. With the cat.