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\nI\u2019m moving on up\u2014I mean\u2026 over. At the very least I\u2019ll be around. And that\u2019s okay. Up is a limiting direction\u2014no, really, it is. Once you start going up, your options are to continue to go up, which is obviously the best-case scenario, go over, which after going up feels stagnant, or go down. Me? I want to go around, and it just so happens that\u2019s where I\u2019m going.
\nA year into a new job at a new company in a new field, moving around professionally sounds vague, unfocused, and it does not sound fancy, but I\u2019m not a fancy person. As soon as the weather drops here in Milwaukee, I wear the same tie-up boots every dang day. And those boots were made for walkin\u2019, and where do they walk? All around our building.
\nI\u2019m one of those people that when asked, \u201cWhere do you see yourself in five years?\u201d instead of humoring the inquirer, I\u2019m honest (as I am in most things) and respond with the verbal equivalent to a shrug. It\u2019s not indifference or lack of ambition. It\u2019s a genuine acknowledgment that no previous five-year period has seen me where I thought I\u2019d be, so the exercise in prophesizing seems like an expenditure of energy I\u2019d be better off using to decide what I want for dinner.
\nThat being said, I am not aimless, un-invested, or goal-less. On the contrary, I am aimed, poised toward the future I want\u2014it just so happens that that future is flexible, and changing as I grow, learn new things, and am exposed to expanding experiences.
\nA year ago, when I walked in to begin acting as the Director of First Impressions, I had little concept of what a day would look like, let alone what I\u2019d be doing 367 days from then. I started, bound to a specific place for a specific purpose, except when there was a random polar bear sighting\u2026 Three months in, I was in Virginia. Four months, Tampa. Six months, I started sneaking away from my desk, finding places I was needed, filling in gaps, and solving problems that weren\u2019t mine by assignment but by choice.
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\nThus, a wandering path was chosen: a path on which there are forks and hills and obstacles and loops sometimes taking me back to the start or getting me lost, and sometimes I get stuck on a long, straight section of trampled earth wondering if there isn\u2019t something to learn there, too.
\nMy path, while perhaps wandering in job responsibilities and field \u2013 and life \u2013 isn\u2019t as wandering as some. And there are those 5-year planners, who trek purposely up that hill, who would shudder at my choice, but I consider myself lucky to have found a place that allows me to not know a little, experiment, fail safely, and ultimately, climb \u2013 metaphorically or not.<\/p>\n
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<\/em>Up is one direction you can go, but The Rhythm of Reman wonders why simply go up when you can go all around? Not all paths are straight, and Andee likes it that way. Do you shoot for the hill or take the path where it goes? Comment below or