Week 2 Exploration: Storyboard

1. Week 2 Exploration:
Storyboard

2. For the first 30+ years of my working life, I worked jobs
that left me unsatisfied at best and depressed at worst.

3. The majority of
the various
positions I
suffered through
not only didn't let
me realize my
full potential,
they never made
use of it at all.

4. In short, I've seldom
worked a job that I
really enjoyed.

5. Some positions
were more
interesting than
others,
but none truly
gave me that
sense of
accomplishme
nt that I crave.

6. When I was younger, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I
grew up.

7. Finally, I realized I was passionate about
writing.

8. Nothing is quite so
satisfying as
finishing an article
or a scene and
thinking,
"Yeah. That's
good."

9. Yay
!

10. I finally figured out what I wanted to do with my
life!
I wanted to
write!

11. About the time I realized this, I
turned to my new husband and
said, "I'm pregnant."

12. Anyone that writes regularly may understand
why, at the moment the real world insinuated
itself upon my life, I stopped doing one of the
most important things that made that life
worth living.

13. It's difficult to
concentrate on two
passions at once.

14. The precious new human life
I'd help create took
precedence over creating
new fictional lives.

15. Oh, I still wrote; I even
published some articles on
parenting.

16. Unfortunately, the landlord, utility companies, and
grocery stores dictated the necessity for me to work
full-time.

17. Between 40 hours of doing yet
another job I didn't like and
caring for a growing family,
writing just fell by the
wayside.

18. After my husband and I both got caught in the Great
Downsizing of '09, I still need to work for a
guaranteed paycheck.

19. That doesn't mean I have to stay on the
same, boring path of jobs I hate to go to.

20. When I toured the Full Sail campus with my son, I said,
"I wish I was younger because this is the school I would
attend."

21. To which my son
replied, "What's
younger got to do
with it? There's
no reason you
can’t do it now."

22. I raised some wise children.

23. Now that my kids were no longer kids and well able
to fend for themselves, it was time to finally stop
pushing aside my dreams of having a fulfilling job.

24. I enrolled in Full Sail University in the online
Media Communications Bachelor's of Science
program in August.

25. It's a degree that combines writing with aspects I liked about some
of my past jobs, something that I strongly feel will lead me to a
great deal of job satisfaction.

26. I may be older,
but I'm not past
my working
prime, yet; I still
have a good 20
years of work
left in me, I
think.

27. I plan to spend it as a Media Communications
professional.

28. This time, I
want to have
fun for a
living.