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This is part two of my interview with Jen, in which we explore what drove her to become a nutritionist.

How did you end up in this career path?

I’ve always liked health, and I’ve definitely always known that I would be in a position where I helped people, because I really like to see change, in a positive way.  And I got started because I ended up really sick.  When I was a kid I had extremely bad digestive problems and I was in and out of the doctor‘s office and they would always put me on prescription medications.  It got to the point where I was throwing up every single day for three months in 8th grade.  They were just {saying}, “oh, you’re fine!” “No, I’m not.”  And it ended up – my Mom figured out that it was lactose that was bothering me.  So we assumed that I was lactose intolerant, and I cut out dairy, and I ended up being a lot better.  I find out now that I am lactose sensitive which is a completely different pathway, but, still, lactose and I don’t get along very well.

Then, a few years later, when I was in college, I got into a really bad car accident that messed up the nerves in my back, and caused a bunch of problems in my whole body.  I ended up with major, chronic pain and went through five years of surgeries and doctor’s appointments without people being able to tell me what it was or how to fix it.  I ended up figuring it out myself.  I was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis, which is like Crone’s in the bladder, but doctors don’t know how to heal it.  I was in too much pain to function, so I decided to go back to school to figure it out myself, and I’ve done it.

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What’s the secret? How do people end up in their dream jobs?  And what do they actually do when they are there?

It’s a question that has always plagued me.  Look around the place you live.  How many people live there?  How many businesses and office buildings line the streets?  What on earth are all those people doing, and how did they figure out that it was the thing to do?  Seriously – what can possibly fill the time for the approximately 3 billion people worldwide who have jobs of some sort?

So, I am starting this lovely blog to figure it all out.  Expect to see interviews with people who have their personal dream job.  These interviews will be broken into two parts:

• Who do you want to be today?, where we’ll talk about what it is that people actually do at their jobs.  What do programmers do first thing in the morning when they get into the office?  Is being an engineer all about math?  What about photographers?  Or gunsmiths?  Or the local owner of the comic book store?
• How did I get here? posts will cover the individual journeys that people took to find their dream jobs.  How do you do it? Do people just get lucky and fall into their dream jobs, or is there a clear set of things that they’ve done to get where they want to be?

I don’t know the answers to these questions.  But I want to find out.

Kim