Thinking About the Future...

It's coming up to a year since I graduated from University and it's forced me reminisce on this past year and I've realised that I'm really not where I want to be in life right now. I've definitely made progress but I've also had A LOT of set backs. But I'm in that mindset now where I don't want to look back anymore but rather move forward. It's like a switch has gone off in my brain where I now know that I'm ready to put my plans and experience that I've been gaining in the past year in to practice. So I want to spend a bit of time talking about what direction I want to go in now.

I feel like this is a new era for me. I finally believe that I'm in the right place to do what it is I have always wanted to do. Something that I haven't really mentioned on my blog yet is that I have started writing for and online music magazine called "Essentially Pop." I get sent press releases every week and I write articles on upcoming music artists as well as artists already in the charts. It's something that I'm really enjoying and I find myself getting excited every time I get a new email with a press release. Who will I be writing about this week? Will I discover a new favourite artist? Will I be writing about any of my favourite bands? It's made me realise that I really do have a passion for writing and I believe that I'm GOOD at it. Of course, this has also allowed me to get my work published which I've been trying to do for the longest time. I won't say much about getting published as there's a whole separate blog that I am doing dedicated to just that. I did a blog post a few months ago where I discussed changing career paths (you can read that post here). Well that seems to be what has happened. I'm very focussed on the writing path and it's something that I love doing so why not pursue it?

Things like this can happen by pure accident. I thought my path was heading down the photography route but I've been re-thinking this career ever since I left Birmingham. Don't get me wrong, photography is a massive part of my life and if a career opportunity came up then I would 100% take it, but sometimes you've got to let life figure itself out. Things don't always go to plan and I'm actually okay with that. I'm passionate about a lot of things and right now, trying to be a better writer is what I'm focussing on.

So what are my future plans now? I don't really know. I don't think that's something anyone really knows. We always got asked in school what we want to be when we grow up. Even in job interviews we're asked where we see ourselves in 5 years time. Who really knows the answer to that question? Sometimes I think we don't always get to decide because it is so easy to change your mind. But that doesn't stop us from trying to achieve what we want to achieve in the NOW. So what I want right now is to move to London. To be quite honest, this is something that hasn't really changed. I'm always talking to my friends about moving to the city together and all having our dream careers. Except now, I don't want that to be just talk. I want to actually DO IT. I have completely re-vamped and rebranded my website and CV. I have a new Twitter account which I have just set up which focusses on my media work which you can follow here. And I am working EXTREMELY hard on the work I am doing with Essentially Pop and the local council.

Hopefully by doing all this, I can get my dream job in London as a writer in the media industry. I obviously have my fears on this and it might not be something that's going to be that obtainable at this moment, but how do I know if I don't even try? Even if it takes me 5 years to get there does that even matter? For all I know, a dream opportunity might come up elsewhere and completely change my path again and that's okay. But right now at least I have something to aim for.