Getting out of my Comfort Zone

It’s always good to have a plan, even a little one, me? I apparently didn’t have a great plan when I left London. It was find a job, and/or internship; yup that was it, great, but shitty plan huh? It has been two months since I moved back to the U.S. and now I need a better plan, with my parents pushing me, in a good way, I need to find a job, I have bills to pay. Right now I’m applying for jobs and internships here and elsewhere, namely Chicago, but I’ll go just about anywhere except for a few places, New York being one of them. I don’t have anything against it, but it isn’t where I want to live, yeah, I know, picky.  Colorado is not the place to be if I want to apply for art/photography jobs and internships, there are very few galleries and museums here.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve applied to the places I can, though who knows if I’ll get a call back, as a lot of them don’t want you calling them, they’ll call you. I don’t like that mentality, but it is what it is, I realize I will have to call smaller galleries, I hate doing that, but I know I’ll have to. 

What I need to do is get out of my comfort zone, again. I've always gone out of it to an extent, for example, I was quiet in high school, yeah I still am a little, but I’m more outgoing now and always up for anything. In high school I took acting classes and that was pretty much it. I moved to New Mexico to attend university, I was so far out of everything that I knew. I joined a sorority, probably the best decision I made, I made life long friends there. I went on a five week backpacking trip on my own, and I moved to London. All of those things are out of my comfort zone, but I do it anyway because I want to challenge myself and also because I want to do it. I did so much out of my comfort zone this last year, I wanted a challenge, sure I was hesitant, but I went for it. I guess that’s my mantra on life. It’s my desire to travel and experience different cultures, that’s what shapes me as a person, experiencing different things. 

So what now, just pack up my stuff and move to a state where I have family and friends or just move somewhere new altogether, where I don't know a single person. I would rather move somewhere where I know people and meet new people who can help me with a career.