I work at a university and this university offers tuition remission, aka I get my schooling paid for as long as I am willing to pay them back by staying at this university for 2 years after I complete my schooling. Sounds like quite the gig, but am I ready to commit the next 4 years to being in the same place?
This may seem silly to people who have lived in the same place for the last 20 years and it probably is. However, I have never stayed anywhere that long, granted I have been alive for only a whopping 25 years. I fear that if I choose to stay, to pursue this path, that I will be missing the adventures that people say we are supposed to have in our 20's.
My idea is to purse my Masters in Clinical Counseling so that one day I can open a transition house for kids who have spent significant time overseas either servings in the mission fields with their parents (Missionary Kid or MK) or on foreign military bases while their parent(s) are deployed. After meeting with a MK in college I saw the potential need for a place to help third culture kids transition back so they can smoothly transition into college or the work force.
I am still unsure what I will end up doing, but I am starting to realize that I can still have adventures even if I have to travel a bit more or even right where I am. And who knows maybe staying somewhere and putting down roots is the type of adventure I need.
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