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Posted by Tom on November 30, 2009 at 11:31 am

So it’s the end of November, and while most people are looking forward to Christmas (not that we aren’t, we bought a Christmas tree the other day!), Candice and I find ourselves back in the situation of not knowing what’s going to happen next year.

Since we’ll both be finishing our respective degrees this year (fingers crossed) we both need to find something to do next year. It comes down to a couple of basic questions:

“Do you want to go to school next year? Y or N”

“If yes, which school would you like to attend? Do you think you have a chance of getting in?”

I’ve got a couple of schools on my “which school would you like to attend” list, none of which are directly related to my Math degree: two programs in Toronto (Urban Planning at Ryerson and Environmental Studies at York) and one in St. John’s (Post-Secondary Studies at MUN). All of these programs take my studies in a different direction and look at topics that I’ve developed a huge interest in over the past year or two. They all (basically) look at people, as opposed to my math undergrad which looks at numbers (zzzzzz). I’m tired of studying things in school that have no relation to what I’m working on in “real life”, so it’s time to change that.

Of course, I could reply “N” to the first question and attempt to find a job. I’ve been doing a lot of work with the student movement lately, and it could be fun/interesting/enlightening to work at it full-time for a little while. I even think it would be worth taking a year “break”, work at a job that’s meaningful and then dive back into school with a new, positive outlook (and perhaps some money from working). However, these “meaningful” jobs (especially full-time ones) are few and far between, so there’s that I wouldn’t be able to find something fantastic and would end up working in a call center for a year (no offense to people who enjoy working in call centers, but it isn’t on my list of places I’d like to work). It would require that I find a job for next year now (or very soon). I’m not a fan of making these large decisions this far in advance.

Anyway…. I’ll be sure to let everyone know when a decision gets made (*hint* I’ll probably end up in school). On the short(er) term, we’ll be home for Christmas in about 17 days (!!) and to celebrate Candice and I will be doing a TomandCandice.com advent calendar of sorts, where we’re promising to do a post per day until Christmas (… or maybe just until we get home. We’ll play it by ear).

Talk to you tomorrow!

PS:

Candice (sleepy), Tom (haircut)

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