{"id":111,"date":"2011-09-07T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/psychology\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-09-07T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:58:53","slug":"the-theme-of-life-after-college-journeys-patience-and-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/2011\/09\/07\/the-theme-of-life-after-college-journeys-patience-and-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"The theme of life after college? Journeys, Patience, and Passion!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Molly Witerrowd, alumna (class of ’11), Portland, OR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey Everyone! I hope I find all of you doing well and enjoying\u00a0life after college! After graduation I was blessed with the\u00a0opportunity to spend more time working at my practicum placement at\u00a0the Lakewood Child Study and Treatment Center where Prof. Sarah Heavin\u00a0works. For those of you reading this who have yet to graduate and are
\ninterested in that class, I HIGHLY recommend it! I also would add that\u00a0the CSTC is an amazing place to work with incredible staff and kids\u00a0that provide countless learning opportunities day-to-day. After saying\u00a0my goodbyes to everyone there and friends at UPS, I packed up and\u00a0moved back home to Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

My first goal in moving back was to 1) Completely redo my room 2)\u00a0Get all settled into my life in Portland 3) Get a job in the\u00a0psychology field working with kids 4) Play more soccer and 5) Have fun\u00a0with friends from high school and Oregon. I started redoing my room by\u00a0going through all of my childhood things and paying trips to Goodwill\u00a0(luckily finding my favorite new toy- Gameboy!), painting the walls a
\nlovely green, and getting new bedding and furniture (not little kid\u00a0flowers anymore) and then I applied for jobs.<\/p>\n

I ended up getting offered jobs from Albertina Kerr, which is a\u00a0well-respected organization in working with adults who have\u00a0developmental disabilities and\/or mental health issues but decided\u00a0against a long commute and something I wasn\u2019t extremely passionate\u00a0about. In early August, I was offered a job at the Chehalem Youth and\u00a0Family Center as a Youth Treatment Specialist. I have been working
\nwith youth aged 14-18. I am certain of the role that my experience at\u00a0the CSTC played in helping me get this job and am extremely grateful\u00a0for that. Unlike the CSTC where I was in recreational therapy and\u00a0mainly working with the lil\u2019 tikes, this job has provided me with new\u00a0challenges in working on altering behavioral issues, enhancing life\u00a0skills, and coping with a most often negative history. The center is\u00a0ran through George Fox University so I have been connecting with their PsyD program as well as Pacific University\u2019s campus in Portland in\u00a0exploring options for graduate school in clinical psychology.<\/p>\n

This summer I have also had a lot of fun reconnecting with old\u00a0friends and making new friends as well. I spent quite a bit of time\u00a0nannying for a few kids I love, which was nice to see healthy and\u00a0happy kids with loving families! I\u2019ve enjoyed what Oregon has to\u00a0offer- the Portland nightlife with concerts, art and music festivals,\u00a0dancing bars, and comedy clubs. My family and I were frequent\u00a0beachgoers to our new beach house that we built on the Oregon Coast in\u00a0a town called Manzanita. I also went camping a few times with friends\u00a0from school. Considering my work hours are flexible, I have been able\u00a0to spend a lot of time traveling and relaxing and actually snow skiing
\nfor the first time on Mt. Hood! I\u2019ve been skiing since I could walk\u00a0because my dad\u2019s on Ski Patrol but this time, it was beautiful and\u00a0sunny when we visited with one of UPS\u2019 soccer coaches, Kelly Bendixen\u00a0and his hilarious middle school son who is phenomenal at snowboarding!\u00a0Also, other firsts during that weekend and throughout the summer were\u00a0tight-roping on an obstacle course, zip-lining, and reverse and
\nregular bungee jumping! Quite an adventure!<\/p>\n

So overall, a great summer! The theme that I found intertwined\u00a0throughout life after college was that it\u2019s important to take any\u00a0opportunity provided in exploring new journeys, having patience and\u00a0determination in setting goals and getting a job that is fulfilling,\u00a0and taking time to have fun with the people you love while doing\u00a0things you\u2019re passionate about! I\u2019m looking forward to the future in\u00a0continuing to make lists of what I want to do, working with an array\u00a0of different types of kids, BECOMING AN AUNTIE TO A NEPHEW, staying in\u00a0shape through physical exercise and the sport I love-soccer, and soon\u00a0enough- visiting UPS again to explore the new building once more and\u00a0to see all of you! Especially because I can\u2019t wait to hear about all\u00a0the wonderful things you have been up to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Molly Witerrowd, alumna (class of ’11), Portland, OR Hey Everyone! I hope I find all of you doing well and enjoying\u00a0life after college! After graduation I was blessed with the\u00a0opportunity to spend more time working at my practicum placement at\u00a0the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-molly-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}