With $5,000,000? (from PSYC 611) - Sept 12

The Activity: Broadening Our Vision and Dreams for Our Career

You have just completed your Ph.D. in counseling psychology. As a graduation gift, a long-lost relative gives you $5,000,000. You are entitled to keep all of the money. The only requirement is that you must work. You can do anything you want in your work. What would you want to be doing in your work? What type of setting(s) would you want to be in?

WORK - the intent to accomplish something of value

I am never too enthusiastic about activities such as this. First, I do not care too much about money. Money is important, as for everybody. However, relatively speaking, money does NOT have a huge bearing on my decision making. I am a relatively frugal person. I am rather good at living with limited financial resources and stretching them, good at (intuitively) budgeting and saving money, ... I enjoy a little luxury here and there, but am fond of a simple life in general. Thanks to my upbringing and my gifted and virtuous mother. :-) I will give up good pay for something I love with my heart in a heartbeat. That's right. It is all about the HEART.

Anyway, it is difficult for me to respond to such a question. Well, I still want to be a stay-home mom (and you do realize a good wife is implied here, right?). Something probably won't be very well received and edifying to others considering the setting. Something I won't feel safe to share, considering the lack of prospective candidate at the present time. May the LORD help him ^_*

Aside from it, I thought of building an orphanage and a school. It is all about children, the hope of tomorrow. Well, if I never get married, I will devote myself and my maternal love to all children God places in my path. Yet I still kind of think this will be a waste of some sort. I do think I have pretty good genes to pass on as well as good "softwares." :-) (My "shameless" self-evaluation.)

Then I realized that the one thing I REALLY want to do is to share my JESUS and His LOVE with others.

None of this is close to my more routine idea of working at a university setting. As I think of it, I realized that it is about making an impact. With limited resources, there are limited possibility of making an impact. Ample resources take away some restrictions and open more doors.

I don't think I will have $5,000,000 dropped at my doorsteps. However, I can surely implement my values in my WORK (the magic word) whenever the LORD leads me.