"How did I get so lost?"

[ NOTE TO READERS: My favourite style of writing comes from reading too much Kerouac - take that as you will. I will write fast and erratically. I will fix my mistakes as I go if I see them. I might not apologise if I don't see them (but will endeavour to make amendments later). I promise to write passionately. ] 

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I am leaving a retail career that I was buried in, to go back to my roots and work for a museum. Background: I became addicted to photography when I was at school. six years of photographic study later, I was let loose from academia and was working for a museum as a visitor assistant. Life happened and I fell into retail, as a career bookseller for a large bookshop chain. 

Here we are now, and 2016 sees me coming to my senses and having the guts to stand up and say... 

                     "How did I get so lost?"  

A month later and I have resigned from bookselling and am about to start full-time work as a visitor assistant in my local museum. Here begins my blog and my new career.  I have even made an eight year plan. It consists of many phases, the first of which is to absorb LIKE A SPONGE as much information as I can. I have been out of the game for so long, I have little understanding of the heritage sector anymore, so I need to learn fast...