Personal Growth....

T-minus 36 days till I graduate from UTA.

It's slowly but surely sinking in. The past 17 or so years of my life, the priority has always been schooling above all else.

Now, I'm 36 days away from that completely changing. I'll have my B.A. and I'll be apart of the work force. The 'ole 9 to 5, 5 days a week. Ok... ok... that's not completely true, but It's really starting to hit me that my new focus in about a month is going to work.

For the past 5 years I've been running Polysomnograms (aka, "Sleep Studies") for a company in DFW. This carreer has been fantast to me as a college student and working nights suits me oh so well. Well, I've finally moved on from the company I've been working for the past 5 years and found a new company doing the same thing.

The problem with this whole situation is that my degree is not in "Sleep Studies". My degree is in Education/Kinesiology. I went to school to teach kids Physical Education. I've looked around for teaching jobs and I know that they're out there, but it's difficult to get my head around the idea of a "pay-cut" from what I'm doing now. It's technically doing more work, for less money, but then again I'll be uising the degree I worked for for 5 and a half years.

I've realized I'm just ranting, but I wanted to throw that out there. Being this close to graduation has really started to hit me hard and made me re-assess a lot of what i'm doing/have been doing carreer wise.

In triathlon/running news from the Jacob front, I'm doing two races this weekend. The first one is the Rockledge Rumble 30K Trail Run, and the second is Bronda's Duathlon put on my Ironhead Race Productions. I'm looking forward to both, but a bit nervous about both as well. My training lately has been good, but just very un "focused". I've just been doing what I feel like when I feel like it. My cycling feels strong and my running feels strong, so I'm looking forward to racing the duathlon after doing a 30K trail run the day before. For the 30K I'd LOVE to win overall. That's definitely the plan. I'm gonna go out hard and see if anyone can hang. If anyone hangs then I'll run with them until they drop, or until I have to drop them in the last mile.

Well I'm outta here. Gotta catch up on some work/school work. Sorry It's been awhile since I've updated. The whole job change has kept me busy! Hope everyone is doing well and training hard.

One more quick note. Let's remember to keep the soldiers and family of those effected by the incident at Fort Hood this week in our thoughts and prayers.

_Jacob_