Hello everyone. For those of you who know me my name is Cory. For those of you who don’t know me I am the hack that runs a Pittsburgh sports blog over at Three Rivers Burgh Blog. This is not a sports blog. If you want to read my thoughts on any number of sports topics you might want to pop over there and check it out but this is not going to be that space. This is more a personal space for myself to talk about random stuff I have going on. I have never been overly open about my personal life over at TRBB because that really isn’t the place for that. I have met a good number of people that have followed me through the years and it is a pretty rewarding experience. I guess this is just a way to let people know a little more about me away from that medium.
Turns out that my life is more than sports. Sure, a big chunk of my life is sports but that shouldn’t make me who I am. It did mold who I am, however. From a young age I was always into sports. You name it and I probably played it. I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to play college baseball on a wildly successful team and that opened the door for me to graduate from college and continue my education at graduate school.
Since college I have done some pretty cool things. I was able to get my MBA paid for by working as a graduate assistant and after graduate school I landed a job in Alaska working for the University in Fairbanks before moving to Wisconsin to continue my professional life. Those are some experiences that I never thought I would get to do and while they took me away from my family and friends they were rewarding experiences.
Now here we are. After almost six years way from away from home, where the only person I knew was six hours away. This didn’t mean that I couldn’t have friends, because I did, but sometimes you just need to be around people that you can bullshit about that time you were at a party and did something dumb. You need the people around you that you can reminisce with. I knew I wasn’t going to be in Wisconsin for the rest of my life so it made things that much harder.
Now I am back in Pennsylvania. I am almost without a job and while I am interviewing it is wildly scary at the thought I might not have a job. I knew that was a possibility when I left my last job but as the time is getting closer to needing a job it is becoming more and more stressful. The job market isn’t the easiest but that was a chance I took. Things can still play out the way I want but the waiting it tough.
Since I have been home I have been working remotely until they hire my replacement and have him in place. That has been nice to still have a job and give me some more time, otherwise I would be a lot more stressed out.
That is where I came from and this is where I am at now. In some sense I have no idea what I am going to do with the rest of my life. At 28 (almost 29) I feel like I should have an idea, but I don’t.
Anyways, that is kinda the overview of me. I have no idea how much I am going to write on this or what is going into it. I am starting to train right now for an Olympic Triathlon (or half triathlon, not sure which) so this will probably be an area I can come to with workouts and use this as a medium to keep me motivated and accountable to someone since I train alone. As things come up I might be back.
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