So tonight I will be teaching class one again to a new group of people/puppies. I am not nervous right now which I am loving. By this time on Tuesday I was getting pretty nervous! I think I will be nervous when I get to work but I also know that I can handle it, which is lovely.

I wasn't letting myself think about training as a career much due to the fact I wasn't sure if I was going to survive my first class. I had given myself the option to run out of the building and never look back and I wouldn't have been upset with myself. Luckily, that didn't happen. Now that I have that hurdle past me, I am starting to really dream about my possibilities. Unfortunately the company I am working for owns me for 6 months after I leave them, but I figure if R and I move – which I really hope happens within the year – then I can quit that job before the move to pack us up, then when we move I will take time to unpack and get settled. I can possibly temp somewhere doing something unrelated to dog training til my 6 month non-compete is over. Anywho – I have many plans formulating in my head on how I can move forward in this career path and leave admin far behind. Granted I want to get through a FULL 8 weeks of training classes before I decide if this is what I want to do, but I can tell you that once I was less nervous on Tuesday night, about half way through the class, I was feeling great. I liked it. So we’ll see if that was a fluke or if it will be something I really will enjoy. :0)

I am also (still) trying to come to grips with missing out on things with my busy life at the moment. My brother and his family will be at the lake in August and I just don’t know if I can get enough time off to swing a worthwhile trip. I could go up and have one full day there, but that’s 12 hours of driving for a day, and while I love my brother and his family, it’s just a lot of time in the car for not much quality time. So we’ll see. I keep thinking that next year *hopefully* I will be able to set my own schedule thereby I will be able to decide when classes will and won’t be. Dare to dream!

So wish me luck that I keep myself together through class tonight. :0) Happy Thursday peeps!