The Big Debate

Last week Jordan and his brother-in-law Drew found out that they got accepted into the Public Relations Program. I had full confidence the entire time he was applying that he would get in. This area of study is straight up his ally. He is so good at it (and that's an understatement!). He is thinking he wants to become an ethics director eventually and once he has a year or two of working experience he'll go back to school and get his MBA. His projected graduation date will be April 2011.

In the mean time I'm trying to decide what to do with my life after I graduate in April. It has been a huge ongoing struggle for me to come up with different options that will work for both Jordan and me. I've come across a Physical Therapy Assistant Program at Salt Lake Community College. I would be in school for another year and a half, but that doesn't bother me. I'm currently looking into all the details in applying except nothing seems to be going right. I haven't had any time to go and meet with an advisor at the college because my schedule simply won't allow it. I'm up at 5am and am on the go and not at home till 8pm. There are prerequisite classes of which 2 I would have to take from the community college on top of my full load at BYU, and since the program is 3.5 semesters long - if Jordan received a job out side of Utah I wouldn't be able to finish. This is one of those times I'm trying extra hard to be in tune with the spirit to feel if this is the right thing to do. Every step of the way I'm gathing more information and trying to assess.

My other option that I have thought about is to find a part time or maybe full time job somewhere and also help my track coach with the team. This one seems really fun because I would learn so much from my coach. He has been the head track and field coach for the 2004 & 2008 Olympics and is the national head development chair of long jump, high jump, triple jump, and heptathlon. Of coarse I would mainly coach the high jumpers because that's what my experience is in, but to learn more about everything else in the training process would be great.

Both options are good for me, but my feelings on both fluctuate from day to day, which makes the process of choosing a little confusing. Over the course of the last few months Jordan has given me blessings which have been of great benefit. The worst thing I fear is making a decision and having in a way "buyers remorse" later down the road wishing I did something else. I have yet to have this happen with a life decision. It's only happen to me when I've bought clothes or shoes :) But such is life...full of tough decisions in the moment.