Have you ever been really happy? Just felt like everything in your life was going your way? Well, that's me right now. I'm about two months into my summer job & I realized I really like where I'm working. I always thought I'd hate working at a firm, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I actually like it there. Not that I plan to be there forever, but for now, I really like my colleagues & I love what I'm doing. I still can't believe people are paying me to do this - it's like reverse school, you learn something new everyday but someone's actually paying you for it.
Not that I've always felt this way. I really enjoyed my senior year at university & thought I'd never top that. Then I started working and was so miserable - I hated my job & most of my friends had moved away after graduation.
Then came law school. For the past two years, about every other day I'd look at my escalating debt & wonder if I had made the right choice to come back to school. Classes were so rough & I pretty much hated most of my classmates. Plus even though it was nice being back in Toronto, it was also weird in the sense that I was back in a place that was familiar filled with people who weren't.
But now, I realized I really did make the right choice. I love the practice of law, and the friends I've met along the way are making this the best summer ever. Though, I have stacks of unread newspapers & books piling up and I haven't turned on the TV in ages since between friends, work, & the gym, I'm never home. But each day, on my walk home, I just can't help feeling so content & lucky to be doing what I am.
I hope you all feel that either now, or one day too, no matter where you are or what you're doing.
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