John Carrier

A few weeks ago, we got a new dining room table.  It’s awesome.  It seats six comfortably, and fully-leafed, it can accommodate 10-12.  We have hosted a couple of big Shabbat dinners with friends and family, and this Saturday we’re hosting our first Passover seder.  The funny thing is, we’re still going to need a card table on the end, because we’re expecting 13 for dinner, my personal record for mouths to feed in one meal.

So, one goal down, nine to go…with a twist.

A couple of months ago, I decided to start thinking about maybe considering (in a very preliminary way) the inkling of a notion of possibly changing the course of my career…and becoming a rabbi. 

Since then I’ve talked to my own rabbi and to rabbis at the three rabbinical schools he suggested I check out - JTS, Ziegler, and Hebrew College.  All the programs sound interesting, and all the rabbis gave me something different to focus on in preparing to apply, leaving me with a lot of work to do over the coming year, if I want to apply for admission to rabbinical school for the fall term of 2009.  And I do.  More than anything.

So to the extent I make this a cat blog and talk about myself, I imagine my journey to rabbinical school will predominate in the coming months.

Have you been down this road (or a similar radical career change / ecclesiastical calling), and can you tell me where the pitfalls are?  I’m all ears.

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