Roasted vegetables and dippy eggs!
The lunch of champions!
At around noon, I roasted some Brussels sprouts after tossing them in olive oil and garlic salt while I sautéed about a quarter of a chopped red onion.
Once the vegetables were ready, I placed them in a bowl with a handful of walnuts and topped them with two dippy eggs, allowing the yolk to drip all over the vegetables.
So incredibly good. If you haven’t tried using egg yolk as a “sauce,” I highly recommend it!
I also had an apple and a Babybel light cheese. Sweet + Salty!
Regret
On my morning walk with Sadie today, I listened to NPR’s TED Radio Hour podcast on “The Pursuit of Happiness.”
The podcast featured three different speakers with one, Kathryn Schluz, speaking specifically about regret.
Three tidbits I found really interesting (according to Kathryn):
- Of all the regretful feelings experienced by people, the most regret surrounded decisions made relating to education (what we studied, lack of education, what we did with the education that we did get)
- Regretful feelings surrounding decisions relating to careers, relationships and parenting followed education, but were also strong
- People also noted feeling significant financial regret, though these feelings weren’t as intense and didn’t seem to “stick” like other regretful feelings
The statistic surrounding the regret people feel about education stated that 36 percent of regretful feelings experienced by people pertain to decisions made regarding education.
I found that fascinating.
I’m not sure why it was especially interesting to me, but I cannot help but notice just how many of my peers seem to be changing directions in their careers right now. I did it myself last year!
I turned 27 last month, so I suppose this makes sense. My friends and peers studied one thing, gave it a shot in the “real world” for a few years and realized it wasn’t what they wanted to do for the rest of their life. Off the top of my head I can think about one friend who is currently a news anchor, but is hoping to break into advertising. Another is an editor who wants to study psychology and become a counselor. Big changes!
My bachelor’s degree is in advertising and public relations. My minor is in marketing and I learned very quickly that a career in marketing just wasn’t for me. (You may read a bit more about this time in my life here.)
While part of me wishes my educational background had something to do with health, nutrition, exercise or wellness, I still feel like my major is beneficial to me in my field (specifically the public relations aspect). I don’t have regret about the decisions I made surrounding my education, but I do have a lot of “what if” questions that swim through my head surrounding a bunch of different career paths.
Question of the Afternoon
- Do you have any regret surrounding decisions you made regarding your education?
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I wouldn’t call it necessarily regret but it was very interesting. I got a BA in poly sci and had all set myself up to try and go to law school but then realized that I’m just not that type of person lol. I’m now working on getting my Masters in Social Work & it’s the best decision I ever made because I’m going to get to do what I never realized I was made for… HELPING PEOPLE :-D! Thanks for this post Julie 🙂
I didn’t go to college. I was very lucky to find a job right out of school, and 11 years later I am still there, as a manager. I still love it, and I never ever would have gone into this field (layout design & publishing) otherwise.
I have never regretted not going to school!
Wow this post is incredibly relevant to me at this moment! I don’t regret my education because I think it was impossible to know what I wanted to be when I grew up at 17, when I finished my AA degree and picked my major. I’m glad I got my PR BA but chuckle as I apply to go back to school for something totally different.
I LOVE using dippy eggs as a sauce. My favorite recipe is using it as a salad dressing. I make my salad using a big plate of spinach, crispy bacon, oven roasted cherry tomatoes, red onion, and 2 dippy eggs. It makes the perfect side or make it as the main dish!!
I majored in Flute Performance and had plans to become a professional flutist in an orchestra….and then I injured my hands and had to stop playing. I’m now a project manager in the IT world and I LOVE my job. Even though it’d be nice to have an education in something that REMOTELY relates to what I do everyday, I could never regret my education. I had amazing opportunities (traveling to Europe with an orchestra! spending a summer in an orchestra, performing a solo with an orchestral accompaniment in a concert hall…) that I’ll never have again. I lived my dream for 3 years and it was awesome. Even though that chapter in my life is over I’ll never regret it.
I definitely can relate to this post! I graduated with a major in Hotel & Restaurant Management with an emphasis in Event Planning and a business minor. Two weeks before I graduated, I called my mom crying saying I made a mistake and wanted to become a nurse. Nursing was my first major I declared in college, but for some reason I decided to change my mind my sophomore year. Three weeks after I graduated from my university, I started prerequisite courses for nursing and I am currently in an accelerated nursing program and will finish a year from now! I do not regret my first major because it is always nice to have something to have as a back up and I loved every single minute of my college education but I know where my heart is and I honestly cannot wait to become a nurse. 🙂
Hey there! Brussels sprouts and dippy eggs look amazing!! Just curious how long and at what temp did you roast the sprouts for???
I’ve worked hard to get rid of some of the regret I have! I decided this year to end my career as a teacher and go back to school to become a dietitian. This is something that I know I WOULD have regretted if I hadn’t made the leap. For the longest time, I regretted not changing my mind earlier (like while I was still in college). It definitely would have made life easier. But when it comes down to it, that’s not what I did. Now I focus on being thankful for my experience in teaching and appreciating what I’ve learned from it.
I totally have education regrets. I changed my major three times and I only went to a community college! Then I discovered that despite how much people claimed I could get a job, no one would hire me without any experience. I ended up working in a completely different field and hating every minute. Right now I’m in limbo trying to figure out if I want to rack up school debt in order to actually further my career.
I’m 2 years into majoring in Elementary Education. It is a good career choice I think, but not only is the education field lacking in jobs big time right now, I decided that once I have kids, I want a job where I’ll be able to be with them all day. So I decided to open up a daycare after my future husband and I move to Florida next May! My parents hate the fact that I’m not getting a 4 year degree- but I think it’s genius. I have no loans since I paid out of pocket for my first two years, and now I won’t have any outrageous school loans. Love it!
This post is SOOOOOO on point with everything going on in my life right now. I shouted out a WOW when I started reading this!
I don’t regret my B.S in Family Science, concentration in Public Health at all. (I graduated last year) BUT, I currently work in sales and HATE it. The corporate world sucks I have no desire to be in it. That being said I have some college loans, bills, and want to move out of my house so working is really my only option. My dream is to go back and get my masters in Occupational therapy BUT only when I’m financially stable. We will see how this works out!
On the other hand this applies to my dear boyfriend who is going to law school in the fall. He has a 50% scholarship to an instate school (and NO DEBT) but he considering borrowing more money to move out.
but all in all being in your early 20s is challenging lol making your own decisions is tough!
I am SO happy that I took time off after high school. I ended up taking a year off to work, then going to school for a 10 month program in Fashion Marketing… which I needed to do because the college experience is something I’ll never forget… then after working for a few years I realized that I liked talking to people more than mannequins… so I took an office job to get some experience and make more money. Turns out I hated it and decided to take a GAP month during my job to volunteer with underprivileged kids abroad. As soon as I got home I realized that I couldn’t stand my job and enrolled back into school at 24. Choosing a path at that age I believe really helped because I was able to complete a degree in something that I love, not just something I picked from a brochure. I now work in the Canadian non profit sector and I am so glad that I took the time to figure out who I was rather than jumping into something that I thought I should do in order to be successful.
This post hits home for me. I’m currently studying advertising, going into my junior year this fall, and I get regrets about my major and I haven’t even graduated yet! I always think “what if” I followed my passion for writing or my passion for health or blah blah blah. I think it’s almost impossible to choose a major out of high school and be absolutely in love with it by the end because our interests and lives change. I actually started out in the hospitality business field. There are many things I enjoy about being an ad major, but I’m almost positive that when I graduate I won’t pursue a career in the ad industry. I guess I’ll have to market my major as an asset to whatever else I decide to do like you have done. Great blog, you’re always so insightful and you eat like a normal person haha <3