A Long and Windy Road

Recently I made a pretty huge decision: I'm going back to grad school for a second masters degree. I had felt that my past education choices were the wrong choices. I wished that someone had told me when I was a junior that I could run a museum and here was the education path I needed to do that. But I thought that normal people like me couldn't run museums. So I went to school and decided I'd plan the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade instead. Then when I graduated and realized I didn't want to do that I changed directions and went on to get a master's in library science. But secretly I still wanted to run a museum. I made some other choices and took some other roads and then I applied for the master of arts in arts administration at Goucher College. I was accepted and I knew that this was the way to go. I e-mailed a good friend of mine in the museum world (I had been considering studying under him at Florida State for a Ph. D.) and he said I made an excellent choice. That my combination of the MLIS and MAAA would be unstoppable and open me up for a variety of jobs in the cultural heritage organizations.

So it was a long and windy road and will last three more years since my master's is a three year master's degree, but it was a good road and I wouldn't change a thing.

What about you? Are there decisions you've made that you thought were not the right ones, but then turned out to be correct?

What's your dream job?