Hey everyone! I'm very new to consulting the I ching, but any help is greatly appreciated!
"What will happen if I take an online skills course as a first step in my adult life?" > 21.3.5 changing to 13
"What will happen if I try to teach English abroad" > 51.4.6 changing to 27
"Is it wise to take a great leap at this moment in my life?" 24 Unchanging
A little context for my reading: I just graduated community college. Not a huge milestone, but it has been a surprisingly difficult journey. It's taken me five years to do what a lot of people do in two. My plan was to finish it up and transfer out to a full university but that didn't pan out for financial reasons. I'm at a point where I'm eager to move out of my parents house and generally feeling unsatisfied with my life as it currently is. Working in retail has started to weigh on me in the past month or so. I've always been able to tune out how much I dislike my job because it's been a matter of necessity but lately I haven't been able to ignore how stressed out my job makes me. I have reached a point where my managers are talking to me like I'm going to be a retail lifer and they're mentioning setting me up for management, but the thought makes me nauseous. I also have a sense of a deadline looming above me, as after six months my student loans switch into repayment and that would lock me in my current situation financially for a good period of time.
That said, I've settled upon some options that I feel are good first steps in getting me out of my current situation. One is an online professional skills course that I feel aligns with my overall desired career path, the other being getting a certificate that would let me teach English abroad.
The main dilemma is that the english abroad offers a more concrete timeline because it's handled by training and employment agencies, so that you pretty much know that as long as you get your paperwork done by the deadlines you'll be teaching english in Spain or wherever by September, but long term has nothing to do with where I want my career to go and also I have no idea what I would do after my teaching contract expires, and so I feel is only an exercise in kicking my current problems down the road a year or two. Another con is that it's much more expensive and because of how strict the visa deadlines are I could be locked out for a year if I fail to come up with the money in time.
On the other hand, the skills course aligns pretty exactly with the general direction I know I want to take my career, but doesn't have the clear set timeline of teaching abroad and I could potentially get mired in a fruitless job search.
I first asked the oracle "What will happen if I take the online skills course as a first step?" and got 21.3.5 changing to 13. The way I interpret this is that my current situation is difficult and needs some "chewing over". There's also something about having some baggage I need to work through, that maybe my dated concept of how I would be living by now is holding me back from building my best life in the present? For a long time I've had a lot of emotional value in the idea of having a traditional college experience. I thought I had come to peace with not attaining that, but maybe I haven't? The conflict between line 3 and line 5 says to me that things could either go well (find gold), or go poorly (find poison). But that if it does go poorly it's not a huge setback?
Next I asked "What will happen if I try to teach english abroad?" and got 51.4.6 changing to 27.
I see this as saying I'm in a situation where I've experienced some tremors, have been sort of mired in the mud, but that this is also a situation that has given me some clarity and direction (which I would agree with), but I'm unclear what changing to Nourishment should mean?
In the end I decided to ask one final question, because I began to see that maybe my true question was if it was even a good idea to stick myself out like this? Maybe I should accept that things are a little off balance right now and I should just ride it out in the uninspiring yet comfortable way I live now. So I asked the oracle "Is it wise to take a great leap at this moment in my life?" and got 24 unchanging, but I don't know how I should take this.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to offer some insight on this! I'm pretty new to the yi ching and forums, so let me know if I've made any rookie mistakes lol
EDIT: modified for clarity
"What will happen if I take an online skills course as a first step in my adult life?" > 21.3.5 changing to 13
"What will happen if I try to teach English abroad" > 51.4.6 changing to 27
"Is it wise to take a great leap at this moment in my life?" 24 Unchanging
A little context for my reading: I just graduated community college. Not a huge milestone, but it has been a surprisingly difficult journey. It's taken me five years to do what a lot of people do in two. My plan was to finish it up and transfer out to a full university but that didn't pan out for financial reasons. I'm at a point where I'm eager to move out of my parents house and generally feeling unsatisfied with my life as it currently is. Working in retail has started to weigh on me in the past month or so. I've always been able to tune out how much I dislike my job because it's been a matter of necessity but lately I haven't been able to ignore how stressed out my job makes me. I have reached a point where my managers are talking to me like I'm going to be a retail lifer and they're mentioning setting me up for management, but the thought makes me nauseous. I also have a sense of a deadline looming above me, as after six months my student loans switch into repayment and that would lock me in my current situation financially for a good period of time.
That said, I've settled upon some options that I feel are good first steps in getting me out of my current situation. One is an online professional skills course that I feel aligns with my overall desired career path, the other being getting a certificate that would let me teach English abroad.
The main dilemma is that the english abroad offers a more concrete timeline because it's handled by training and employment agencies, so that you pretty much know that as long as you get your paperwork done by the deadlines you'll be teaching english in Spain or wherever by September, but long term has nothing to do with where I want my career to go and also I have no idea what I would do after my teaching contract expires, and so I feel is only an exercise in kicking my current problems down the road a year or two. Another con is that it's much more expensive and because of how strict the visa deadlines are I could be locked out for a year if I fail to come up with the money in time.
On the other hand, the skills course aligns pretty exactly with the general direction I know I want to take my career, but doesn't have the clear set timeline of teaching abroad and I could potentially get mired in a fruitless job search.
I first asked the oracle "What will happen if I take the online skills course as a first step?" and got 21.3.5 changing to 13. The way I interpret this is that my current situation is difficult and needs some "chewing over". There's also something about having some baggage I need to work through, that maybe my dated concept of how I would be living by now is holding me back from building my best life in the present? For a long time I've had a lot of emotional value in the idea of having a traditional college experience. I thought I had come to peace with not attaining that, but maybe I haven't? The conflict between line 3 and line 5 says to me that things could either go well (find gold), or go poorly (find poison). But that if it does go poorly it's not a huge setback?
Next I asked "What will happen if I try to teach english abroad?" and got 51.4.6 changing to 27.
I see this as saying I'm in a situation where I've experienced some tremors, have been sort of mired in the mud, but that this is also a situation that has given me some clarity and direction (which I would agree with), but I'm unclear what changing to Nourishment should mean?
In the end I decided to ask one final question, because I began to see that maybe my true question was if it was even a good idea to stick myself out like this? Maybe I should accept that things are a little off balance right now and I should just ride it out in the uninspiring yet comfortable way I live now. So I asked the oracle "Is it wise to take a great leap at this moment in my life?" and got 24 unchanging, but I don't know how I should take this.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to offer some insight on this! I'm pretty new to the yi ching and forums, so let me know if I've made any rookie mistakes lol
EDIT: modified for clarity