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In the last year or so I have been struggling with what I want to be when I grow up. Or boredom.  Either way, I tried to fill my time with extra jobs and that didn't fill the void and then I went back to volunteering and remembered why I stopped.

So I took an online test that asked like 127 questions and was suppose to tell me what I would be good at as a productive member of society.  I received equally high marks in psychology and nutrition.  I naturally gravitated toward psych because in middle school I wanted to be a middle school counselor and that remained my career choice until my 2nd semester of junior college .

A day at the zoo in between finals broke me of that dream when I saw how 5th grade girls acted in public.  NO THANK YOU!  Really haven't been a huge fan of children since.

John was not a fan of psychology because he knew people who had degrees in the field but were not working in it.  I'm thinking, it's medical related, how could you not have a job.  

I did the research, asked some that are practicing and looked at my school/time/financial options.  AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!

So I kind of put all that on a back burner not even giving nutrition a thought, I certainly did not want to be a dietician in a hospital or nursing home.  I wanted to help people before that point.

I quit going to the gym in August 2013 and started eating and drinking any and everything I wanted.  Oct-Dec I was down in my back, sinus problems and over-all feel bad.  I missed work and social obligations.  My own little experiment if you will on what poor nutrition will do to a perfectly healthy body.

I wanted to help people find their HAPPINESS.  There is positive psychology now and you have to have a degree in Psychology to take the positive psych courses.  It would take me 8 years to just get the psych degree and another 4 to get the positive degree.  Did I mention I am already 44?  That would make me 56 before being of use to anyone and BROKE.

I saw something on Integrative Nutrition, I don't recall if I googled something and it came up or if it popped up on my Facebook radar or what but I clicked on it and was intrigued.  Then the price scared me away.

Well since I clicked on it I kept getting Emails and pop-ups.  I normally ignore or unsubscribe but I didn't.

I spoke with a recent acquaintance I admire a lot about making people happy and the correlation to nutrition and she shared her struggles and goals with me which were similar.  She wanted to help her people become healthier as a whole.

That encouraged me to do more research on this Institute of Integrative Nutrition.