Professional development--and development in general--is a beautiful thing. I've experienced immeasurable personal growth simply through hearing my classmates talk about their experiences.
I appreciated that pretty much everyone found their own niche and corresponding person to follow. Prior to these presentations, I did not know the cost of a customized knee brace, why the Rec Center egg hunt was a struggle, or how much time goes into being a high school teacher-coach.
The other nice thing was getting some more career options. And it's great to know that if I ever want to find out more about a particular job or position, I can just shadow someone. Although I wonder how well that would work if I just emailed a random person...I guess I'll have to find out...next winter...
This project has inspired me to contact the city of Minneapolis so that I may learn what it's like to drive a snowplow! DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE!
Funny you mentioned the customized knee brace considering your most recent frisbee injury. How is the knee doing, by the way? Have you RICEd it?
I would suggest learning how to drive a bike before you try driving a snowplow. Although... snowplows are probably more resistant to bike rack crashes than bikes are.
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
I have. I'm running out of rice though...
As for the bike rack crash that you are not so subtly referring to in the aforementioned comment, I would like to point out that I DIDN'T HAVE BRAKES.
It's July.