Who is Jac?

Great question. I’m glad you asked. Let me tell you a little about me. I promise to try not to make it too boring.

Have you heard the saying, “Jack of all trades, master of none”? Many times in my life I’ve felt like this is an apt description of me. Heck, my name is in the saying, so it has to fit, right? Or maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

From a young age I have always loved to learn. I even went to summer school one year when I didn’t have to so I could get better at creative writing. Although that didn’t last long because it started way too early. And if there is one thing I like more than learning, it is sleeping.  

The culmination of my formal learning ended in getting my doctorate in psychology. Which I guess means that I am a master in at least one field, although there is still much to learn. After getting my degree I thought I was set. I got jobs teaching psychology and also providing therapy. That was it, I was set for what I would be doing the rest of my life. Or so I thought.

In 2010 my husband got a job in a different state. My husband, kiddo and I picked up and moved 900 miles across the country. I wasn’t licensed to provide therapy in the new state. I had one teaching position that I was able to do remotely. So, I took that opportunity to be home with my kiddo (and soon after kiddo #2). 

This created a new type of learning for me. How to be a parent. How to work from home. How to make new friends in a new city (as an adult no less!). How to decorate. What are the best work from home computers (a laptop was way easier than a desktop because I could take me kiddos outside and still work). How do you have a career and a family? Well, as you can see I was full of questions and slowing finding some answers.

And I learned and I learned and well, I’m still learning.

Today

I can’t believe that at one time a person had to travel to this thing called a library to look up information. We have pretty much the entirety of human knowledge at our finger tips. That is both a good and a bad thing for me. Google might as well be my BFF because that is where I head whenever I don’t know the answer to something.

I always thought, if I could learn for a living then that is exactly what I would do with my life. So, I have turned my learning into this blog. I learn cool things and share them with so you have a useful resource to go and don’t have to find all the answers yourself. After all, learning is better when you share it with others.