definitely not a rocket scientist

I’ve been in situations where I was embarrassed to tell people what I did for a living. In a way I am still normalizing the curve for my high school graduating class. At a ten year reunion with Supreme Court clerks and million dollar investment bankers there has to be a certain number of leasing agency receptionists. I don’t believe that my career makes me who I am, except when I have to say what it is I do out loud in another person’s presence. Oh, I know the anxiety I have surrounding the profession of my profession has to do with the fact that I’m not living up to my potential in my occupational choices. I also know that any job won’t sound right coming out of my mouth until I figure out where and how to best focus my energy. Until that time I can feel a little less self-conscious about telling people whatever it is I’m doing for a living. Because, while I’m not an astronaut, I never drove all night in diapers to stop a man I had a crush on from seeing another woman.