u/floorboredsofa

I just finished a frankly exhausting five years in university finishing at a masters at 21 working my way through and finishing with no debt. The whole time I fantasized about just getting on a plane and going someplace far away like Central Asia with literally no plan and just exploring and living with different people from workaway or something similar. I had an opportunity to do this one summer in Ecuador for 2 months and fell in love with doing it long term. But I also realized that this lifestyle requires money I didn't have and so found that PC could be good alternative since they pay for everything and I could still get some of the experience I wanted. So I applied for an position in Peru and got accepted.

But something else also happened in this time, I was able to get a job in my field after my bachelors and I made good money, feel in love with an amazing person and built strong friendships and have a wonderful home in way I haven’t ever experienced. But still in the end, I welcomed that fear of risking it all and I still think the “sacrifice” would be worth it. And I still want to just be young and free (as corny as I sound), i am a very experience oriented person and I feel like youth is fleeting, so I only want to make the most of it.

So… what’s the problem?
I think I may be starting to realize that peace corps can’t give me what I want. I haven’t even gone and I imagine it to be monotonous, suffocating and overbearing.
I have been yearning for a sense of freedom that I don’t think I’ll be able to find with PC.
I will say I don’t know anyone first hand who has done PC so I just am going off the website and other online entries.
And it just seems like a lot of paper work and bullshit questionnaires so far. And there’s seems like so many rules dictating your life all the time. As a separate issue I am not sure I really rock with the federal government or the underlying mission of the peace corps as a tool of soft power and I am really not looking forward to "swearing in".

But I don't know this is just a long rant, either way I have sold all my stuff and prepared everything and everyone for my departure, so I guess I am going. I am just saying this because I desperately want someone to tell me I am so off base with this but I really doubt I am. But maybe in practice its not so bad to live with and you still have good independence and I just need to shut up and color lol.

please please share any advice, personal experiences, perspectives and insights.

Edit: I should add I work in human services and would love to do something to serve people, I just hear that PC doesn't always have much impact so its not amoung my reasons for joining (but is still a plus if it happens), my real dream was to work in refugee resettlement but that funding is gone.

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