It is important to understand how to be productive within the constraints of tight timescales, while juggling multiple responsibilities, including prioritizing your workload and family life. Maintaining balance in chaotic environments is something I am extremely proud of being able to do. Choosing acupuncture as your next career required considering many different angles; how much it would cost, how long to reach my goals, it was something I knew I would enjoy, if I saw it as a long term occupation since the commitment to school would be so great. Establishing that I wanted to make a major change in my career was much easier than figuring out where I wanted to go. There was a lot of information online about schools, but I used the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) website to figure out which places I would be happy to attend school in and it gave me an overview of that which was offered and where. After gathering enough information to ask intelligent, well-thought-out questions, I cold-called several schools to better understand what they would require of me and what I required in a