Thanks, lovely.

Hell yea, I’m interested. I will email you.

The pseudonym thing is funny. I adapted mine without really thinking about it. I now can tell how people know my by what name they call me. I find that interesting.

Good advice ;). Good luck with your which-way-next thoughts. I understand, believe me.

I know what you mean about not wanting to have to hide – I came to a similar conclusion a while back, as well. (Although I am prepared to compromise to some extent on exactly how my outness is handled – hence pseudonym in some places online.)

Follow the big idea – it might be that it winds up changing a bit somewhere along the line, or it might lead to something totally different, but starting to follow it is never going to be a bad thing. (I give this advice partly to remind myself :) as I’m coming up to some scary which-way-next decisions…)

I drew some unspoken comments on your blog into a larger post on mine. Thought you’d be interested.

I realize I’m not exactly embracing an easy path here. And I intend, as always, to be adaptable.

Good call on the training courses and/or social work. I have some experience with teaching (and learning about teaching), a smattering of experience in social work, and little to no experience in psychology and sociology. (Curiously, I have a family member who just completed a degree in psychology and sociology. I have been picking his brain for reading material.)

Currently this is just a very big, very simple idea. I’ll have to see where it goes from here.

Keep in mind (and not meaning to throw any rain at this) that people are often irrational and fail, for the most part, to take responsibility over their own lives. Which would mean, should you recommend something and it doesn’t work, they are unlikely to blame themselves.

I took a little stint once with a psychology workshop. And learned this lesson the hard way. I would recommend you consider some training courses or experience in social work.