Cliche I know, but hear me out!
For as long as I can remember I've been animal mad, but my heart always belonged to dogs!
I've always wanted to work with animals but when it came time to go to college I was told I need a science subject in my leaving cert to do an animal care course which I didn't have so that was that!
I did a different course instead and dropped out in my second year because my heart just wasn't in it! I started working full time in a café, and that was my life for years...
Cut to 2020, we were in the height of a pandemic and I was working in a café all through lockdown and just thought, this isn't it. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy working in the various different cafés but I always felt I was meant to do something more. If the global pandy taught me anything it was that life is too short and I really don't like people ( but that's a different story lol). So I applied for the animal care course in Bray Institute of further education, and to my utter shock, I was accepted!
On the 20th of September 2021, I arrived for induction, met with the course tutors and my class mates. It felt good to be in a room full of like minded people, people who were just as animal mad as I was. It was like the mother ship was calling me home and I thought this is it, this is where I'm meant to be!
I absolutely loved the course, it was tough going back to a classroom setting after 10+ years, going from a full time wage to part time but I threw myself in head first made it work and enjoyed every minute of it!
After Christmas I left my job in a café after being offered a job in a dog groomers I'd been doing work experience in. Everything was going so well, it all just fell into place as if the universe was saying "this is exactly what you are meant to do".
I've now finished the course, with a distinction, I've made friends for life and I can honestly say I love what I'm doing!
Going back to college at 30, while also planning a wedding was the most stressful, ballsy and maddest thing I've ever done but it was also the best thing I've ever done. At times I thought about throwing in the towel, had multiple breakdowns and questioned if I did the right thing but honestly, knowing what I know now and finally understanding what it means to live your best life
I'd do it all again tomorrow...
Comments
Post a Comment