Dream Big

I've been bit. The traveling bug has got me in the rear end, and it seems like life has gotten stagnant in this dreadful pretty beach town. Last summer I visited Japan, and the west coast of the states, and my mom took me on a cruise to a bunch of Caribbean islands for her honeymoon. I don't know why it erks me to know I'm not going anywhere this summer, but I have got to plan something. My mindset isn't normally like this, and actually was the opposite growing up. I hated traveling because my mom took me to different countries (what felt like) every weekend. It's different now, and the circumstances are far from what I had growing up. I'm beginning to need that escape, or at least a plan to escape; however, with a new job that I've locked myself into it will be hard to just up and go. This brings me to my dream last night. I had moved to a city in the west, had no friends, and everything was new and different. I'd like that. The beers are taken seriously, the people are nicer, and there aren't God-fearing hippocrats yelling at me. The branch I work at is extremely small, and we are all supposed to be jack-of-all-trades kind of guys. My boss expects a lot, but rewards a lot. Most branches of Siemens don't care about personal progress nearly as much as this guy, and after three months on the job he's talking to me about becoming a technician. The end goal for getting the job as an electronic installer initially was to make money. Now it's shifted, it has become my vessel of escape, a moneymaker, a lifestyle. I don't know about making this my life quite yet, but I may start visiting other branches in other cities nearby so I can acquire some other opinions and compare the type of work and parameters they run. I could eventually be doing specialist technician work in Canada, Germany, China, Greece or Japan. The highest amount of offices is in New York, Texas, New Jersey and Arizona. Those would be the easiest places to transfer to, but I'd like someplace new. I've been in New York so many summers that it wouldn't be a big change for me, and New Jersey isn't the most magical place in the world. Texas is a huge opportunity due to what they have: windmills! Very cool, and another blog-worthy idea. The place I move could easily be California, Germany or Canada too. All of those locations have crazy amounts of offices and opportunity. (And they're all freakin' sweet.) Originally I was depressed and tore up that so many of my friends graduated with a Bachelor's and I haven't yet. I know now everything happens for a reason. If I moved to a city with a Siemens Wind Power graduates' course, and focused on the technical side of these awesome machines; I could get my BS with a purpose. (Something a lot of my friends never thought out, a BS with no purpose is just ...well... bulls***) It's a long dream away, but it's the first thing I've ever been motivated towards in the career world. Did I mention Siemens pays for college programs when you're already an employee for period of time? :)
Give me two years: