Hello All,
I can't remember exactly what info search first clued me in to "Refuse To Choose" but I just finished reading it and I knew it was going to be a good book for me when I was using my Kindle highlighter in the Table of Contents to highlight "Chapter 6: I Won't Do Anything If I Can't Do Everything". LOL!!!!!! I've already been recommending it to friends.
I'm 51 and have always been interested in lots of things--lots of time consuming things. I've never had a job that knocked my socks off--have worked variously in HR as compensation & benefits representative, compensation analyst (good for the data geek in me but quickly grew boring) and most of my many working years as an Admin Assistant of various stripes. But none of them satisfy and there has got to be more. So yes, I want to use my scanner abilities for hobbies, but I want it to work for career too, since that is what unfortunately takes up most of the waking hours of my life.
I found bits of myself in all the scanner types but seemed to most closely resonate with Sybil. The only scanner trait I don't feel suits is the idea that I learn fast. I'm not slow by any means but don't view myself as a fast learner--I wish that was the case--I could have accomplished more in less time were that so!
My 2 passions are keeping myself & others mobile to the end of life and 19th century American history, especially Arizona history. If I could craft my dream job, it would be working as a hybrid: half-time physical therapist and half-time Robert Utley (Mr. Utley has had a long wonderful career researching & writing books on the American West as well as working as an archivist and Park Ranger. Dream life!). It's within my means to pick a historical project and work on it, but the enormous costs of going to school for physical therapy are insurmountable. I am looking into training for Certified Personal Trainer but there are limitations with that choice. At some point, I want to do an idea party to brainstorm this dilemma.
Aside from love of exercise and history, I have several fiction and non-fiction books I want to write, I want to read nearly all the U.S. presidential biographies, do blacksmithing, leather work, wood working, learn to play the banjo, master painting (acrylic, oil, & watercolor) and drawing of human figures, landscapes, and animals. Plus a list of smaller "I wannas" besides.
Now if I could just figure out how to get more than 24 hours in a day...
