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I went to the career center again this morning. I have come to the conclusion that my future will be very arbitrary. At the moment I'm missing snow and think that living near water would be nice, so I'll look for jobs in the north on the west coast and by the great lakes. I saw a commercial with big trees a month ago and that made me decide that I wanted to move near the redwood forest, but I just looked it up and I'm not allowed to teach in California. Is there a better way to do this? It seems like I should be taking other things into account, but I don't really know what they are.