June is almost over and...

Yesterday, I went to brunch with 3 friends. We are all (women) engineers and used to work in the same company. We never worked together in a project and we had different supervisors. We were lunch/happy hour friends who became good friends. After 4 years of living in Virginia, our dear friend Su came to Tampa for the weekend. She is the one that I have been writing the Colombian travel guide series for. I still have a few things left to write to complete her itinerary. This post is just a break to reflect on the last weekend.

I realized something interesting, I thought it was just me, but being an engineer has been one of the biggest disappointments. We all agreed that work is boring and that we don't feel passionate about what we do. We all do something different and are at different points in our career, so I never thought they were also bored. I have not met an engineer who LOVED working. We are all proud to be engineers but we don't love spending most of our day at work.  I see my future with an MBA, but I already have a Master's degree and I'm not ready to give up 2 more years of my life in school. I do want an MBA eventually, but I need to be fully committed. Why is it that we all loved the idea of being engineers just to find out years later that the career is not as exciting as we imagined? Why didn't anyone tell us about this? College was challenging and exciting, and I dreamed of what I could do. The reality is that all companies work for profit and that we have to become very specialized to do a good job. The government does not hire many people, they pay consultants to do the job and consultants (we) work A LOT of hours.  Like my dad told me a long time ago: if working was fun, you wouldn't get paid to do it.

Exactly in 1 month, I will be on my way to Cali to get married. I'm excited to go and at the same time I'm exhausted with all the planning that I just want to get married and go to Hawaii!! Plus we have to move out of our apartment. Our lease ends and we want to move to a less expensive place. We are moving, traveling for 25 days, changing time zones, and getting married in the same month. I really need a vacation.

The dress is ready. I picked it up last week. I guess the weight loss effort is over because I refuse to pay for more alterations. I added a couple of preview pictures below. I still don't know about the veil, I don't think I will use one. I was just trying it on that day.

PS: U2's concert is this wednesday and I'm still upset about this matter. How could they re-schedule a concert for a Wednesday night!!!! I think I will not log in to Facebook that day because I will be upset. I paid a fan club subscription, bought great seats and when they canceled I was sad but hoping to see them. If a concert is in Miami I have to take off that day and the day after. When I have a request for 17 days off the following month is not possible to ask for 2 more... I could keep fighting about this forever but I know I've already talked about this many times. I can't annoy my loyal readers (Ana and Kyle!) :)

I have to go to bed. Mondays are tough!