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plenty of time
By Monica

I'm 39, and I have at least 26 more years of working, assuming I retire at 65. Lots of people work past 65. You've got at least 24 more years, and who knows what those years will bring?

I hate the situation I'm in now,
but I look back on all the other times in my life when I absolutely counted on something that didn't end up working out. I was devastated every time. But every time, something else happened that would never have happened if what I had gotten what I wanted so badly.
If the guy I adored so much in high school hadn't decided he didn't want to marry me after all, I probably wouldn't

have gone to college or moved away from the town where I grew up. (And if the stories I hear about him are true, I'd be married to an alcoholic right now.) If I'd gotten the job I wanted so desperately right after college, I would never have moved to the city where I met my husband.

Life does what it's going to do, and we just have to follow along. I'm really disappointed that my life doesn't include a teaching job this year, but I've got lots of time, and plenty of things are going to happen to me that I can't even imagine yet. They'll happen for you too!