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Second grade is the first year I recall trying to plan out my future. I wanted to be Florence Nightingale. Third grade, I think was a cop or maybe EMT. By fourth grade I was focusing on getting into Harvard. Fifth grade I was pretty sure I would make a good rock star and sixth grade I was into astronomy. Seventh grade I think was surgeon and eighth, well, I was just excited about high school. Needless to say, I had no idea what I wanted to do with myself besides try everything. This trend continued well into college where I changed my major five times before ending up with international studies simple because studying abroad was required. And who doesn’t love an excuse to travel?

Despite what my mother would refer to as my dramatic flair (I say it’s more creative, really), I found myself pushing to become increasingly left-brained. Whether that was some kind of self-imposed pressure or just a sign of our times and culture, I don’t know. Hence the degree in international studies and later a masters in economic development from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, in hopes of becoming some kind of corporate power who could single-handedly redistribute income thus finally eradicating poverty. And while that is a noble cause and I do wish for it to happen (and maybe even participate in it happening) I realized I do not want to be part of corporate America.

So after copious amounts of soul searching I chalked up my unrelated degrees to fabulous life experience and turned to web design and graphic art as an outlet for my suppressed creativity. I soon found that this new love of creating things actually goes quite well with my obsession for organization, efficiency and finding that balance between good form and functionality (turns out all that left-brained thinking isn’t all for not). And while I know I will never be able to fully escape corporate life, I can at least help make it look pretty.