Feeling Good
YEA…
Ok, now I am feeling a little better. I have some (not a lot but some) experience with all of the above. *I just wish that some one else in the office had GIS experience so I would not get stuck playing GIS boy all day.
I love what I do, I can not imagine wanting to be anything that did not do something with planning. I just wish I was in a better environment.
How did you know you wanted to be a planner? For me, is was because I realized that I wanted to design more than landscapes or buildings, and I new that I wanted to make an effort to improve the lives of the people around me. I have always loved politics, and when I changed my major (from botany) I looked into similar majors, and sat down, and talked with Mr. Steve Degoosh. He said that it is long hours, and you deal with political BS all the time, but you have the opportunity do help so many people, you get to draw, talk to people, think about new and crazy ideas, and most of all, you don’t need to do the exact same thing every day.
From that moment on, I knew that I was making the right choice. So here I am.