Doing a lame-oid exercise for my “planning your public service career” homework, I was supposed to identify my desires. I wrote a list of things that was 3/4 of a page long. Out of 34 listed items, only 10 weren’t variations on the theme of “increasing positive social integration/connection/etc.” Of the 10, 3 were athletic (which indirectly tied in through group races, and the ideas I have for how to do the transcontinental bikeride), 3 were material (all related to housing, which indirectly tied in by wanting roommates), 2 were self improvement things (organize and calm down), and the remaining two related to my teeth grinding and playing with neat ideas.
The 24 ideas included things like: “never be alone for the holidays”, “raise a kid”, “have a boyfriend”, as well as “bring people closer together”, “engage with others in productive work”, to “Bring the U.S. to a point where we see caring for the sick, the homeless, and the hungry as our responsibility” and “increase respect for religious diversity as well as secular rationalism”.
“increase respect for religious diversity as well as secular rationalism”
exactly.
Well you’ll have plenty of time to connect socially if you move to D.C. You’ll have to develop a tried and true strategy to deal with the stress of doing at least 3 peoples jobs (not to scare you, but the budget ya know). Most people either: a) work out, a lot (2nd or 3rd tightest abs city in the country last year), b) drink, often, or c) both, but never at the same time.
But it sounds like you’re dedicated sop you’ll do just fine. Just remember, it isn’t all about work.