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As part of my little plan to introduce BlogHer to other bloggers and vice versa, I asked female bloggers in the same lot as I to do an interview. Not only for the former reason but also because I need constant affirmation that I am not the sole person in the world to ever go through whatever it is I’m going through; Quarter life crisis perhaps? Whatever it is, it’s nice to know that there is misery and despair going around the greater DC metropolitan area. Via ye olde blog, I’ve met some truly amazing people and friends, most of whom are older than I. This has been entirely helpful to me in that, I stress out and become unnecessarily neurotic (more so than usual that is) about where I’m going with my life and what I’m doing and yet most of these women are feeling much the same way; there is no “perfect†timing and whatever “perfect†timing I had dreamt up years ago, most likely won’t happen that way and it is OK. There will be no apocalypse if I do not have the perfect career by 30, ya know, in case you were wondering.
With that, I present to you my first interview, with one of my very favorite people and bloggers: The lovely Lucy. She is awesome. She’s funny and sweet and the girl belly dances people. BELLY DANCES. Like professionally.
What did you want to be when you 'grow up' or perhaps, what do you want to be when you 'grow up'?
I was unbelievably fickle on the subject of careers as a child. My only constant goal was motherhood -- I am the oldest of five kids, and it never occurred to me to not have a big family as well. My mom was a stay-at-home parent, and I had the importance of mom-at-home drilled into my head over and over and over. Only selfish women, women who OBVIOUSLY didn't deserve children, went back to work after their offspring was born. So honestly, the idea of a career was never given much weight, either by me or by my parents. (So I guess it should come as no surprise that I initially shrugged off college, because why should I pay thousands of dollars for an education I would never use?)
That being said, over the years, I contemplated becoming a ballerina, a nun, an author, or a teacher. Weirdly, the conflict between motherhood and becoming a nun never crossed my mind.
Are you doing that now?
At 28, I'm not yet a mother. If you'd told my 18 year old self that I still would be sans children at this age, I would have scoffed. And yet, here I am. My desire to have children was in overdrive in my late teens and early twenties, but when I hit my mid-twenties, I started REALLY having fun. I got my first professional job (and professional respect), slimmed down, cut my hair, got rid of the glasses, and became a social butterfly. It's only in the last six months that I've started to think about kids again.
At any rate, I'm now a commercial real estate paralegal by day, and a professional bellydancer by night.
What did you do (or where, if you are willing to share) for your first job out of college?
I actually haven't finished college yet. I think this is my fourth year in a row of being a junior at Georgetown. I am SO Sallie Mae's bitch.
Was it the job that you wanted to do?
I never, ever ever would have dreamed that I'd end up in real estate law. My talents in school were always of the artsy-fartsy variety; I won awards for my writing in middle and high school, and excelled in English, history and languages. It was really a fluke that I ended up in the career I'm in -- I began working as a legal secretary after high school, and it just so happened that the partner I worked for did real estate law. He was my first professional mentor. Despite my lack of a degree, he saw that I was smart and driven, and began teaching me how to conduct closings, draft documents, review title and survey. I realized later that much of what I was doing was first-year associate attorney level, but because no
