How I Chose Freedom-the beginning
my office I was at a cross-roads between law school and teacher's college-literally throwing up the night before teacher's college was to start and a week before law school was to start trying to make my decision. Both called to me and interestingly what I was going back and forth with in my head was not about money or prestige or what I love to do, the ultimate factor for me at 23 in what I wanted to do with my life ended up being the ability to have the potential of a small bit of freedom in my day to day life. Everyone defines freedom differently of course but for me the biggest factor was autonomy of my Monday to Friday life. As a teacher of course you can balance the requirement of having to be at school everyday with summers off and a pension which was a big allure of course but there was something I couldn't fathom about going into work everyday for a set number of hours. I felt that as a teacher my version of freedom was restricted because you couldn'...