Turning Over a new Leaf
Well, I had posted a blog a couple of weeks ago on my myspace about how fed up and depressed I was about working the corporate life for over 12 years and it was slowly getting to me being in Customer Service all these years getting chewed out every day for other peoples mistakes… well… I took a leap of faith and put in my notice two weeks ago. Friday, November 10th is my last day of corporate life and I am so excited.
I will be 32 on the 14th and it is about damn time I finally do something with my life that makes me happy. I was raised with a mother and father who were really old school and their philosophy is work hard till your knuckles bleed and it doesn’t matter if you don’t like what you do and are miserable, as long as you have nice things. This was easy for my mom to say, she never worked, but this is something that I never ever want to live my life by. We live in a new world these days where there are so many things available to us and we do not have to be stuck in a rut. I had a manager tell me a long time ago to do something that makes me happy, that was when I was 25, I should have listened a long time ago but I didn’t.
I am headed out to Oregon on Sunday, that’s if I don’t get real sick. Last night a very bad sore throat and headache hit me and I have been trying to medicate myself and I am hoping to be better by the weekend. I have so many goals and things I want to finally do with myself while I have this time, I am going to take up sewing, I haven’t gotten the sewing machine out of the box since Gordon gave it to me last Christmas. I want to focus on my writing more and so many other things. I took a chance last night and applied at two local record labels hoping that they were looking for some kind of office help, I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.
In the meantime I have had so many friends come forward and compliment me on my blogs and CD of the Day that I post up on my myspace page and I have been thinking of starting a portfolio of these and hopefully getting some kind of work writing for a music magazine or some kind of OC Weekly type thing with my music reviews, so Gordon has offered to build me a little website just for my CD reviews, I will have a link to that once it is finished. During the summer my very dear old friend Lisa came out to visit with me, I had not seen her since I was 18 and she asked me what I was doing with my writing because she had remembered that’s all I wanted to do when I was a kid… you know… I had completely forgot about that! I was like… Oh my gosh… that’s right, that’s all I wanted to be and do back then! I always preach on never forgetting where you came from or being a kid and here I wasn’t practicing what I preach… I had forgotten my childhood dream since I was 9!
So I am turning over a new leaf, I am trying to lead the life I have always wanted to and the biggest part about all of this is that I hope to relieve all this stress in my life and to finally be able to get pregnant. This is also a goal of mine and I hope to accomplish it. Out of all the reasons to leave the corporate life this were the number one thing and the most important of them all and I am so lucky to have a husband that is absolutely supportive over all of this and who is willing to take the leap of faith with me. With him it is so much easier I am so blessed.
I will be 32 on the 14th and it is about damn time I finally do something with my life that makes me happy. I was raised with a mother and father who were really old school and their philosophy is work hard till your knuckles bleed and it doesn’t matter if you don’t like what you do and are miserable, as long as you have nice things. This was easy for my mom to say, she never worked, but this is something that I never ever want to live my life by. We live in a new world these days where there are so many things available to us and we do not have to be stuck in a rut. I had a manager tell me a long time ago to do something that makes me happy, that was when I was 25, I should have listened a long time ago but I didn’t.
I am headed out to Oregon on Sunday, that’s if I don’t get real sick. Last night a very bad sore throat and headache hit me and I have been trying to medicate myself and I am hoping to be better by the weekend. I have so many goals and things I want to finally do with myself while I have this time, I am going to take up sewing, I haven’t gotten the sewing machine out of the box since Gordon gave it to me last Christmas. I want to focus on my writing more and so many other things. I took a chance last night and applied at two local record labels hoping that they were looking for some kind of office help, I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.
In the meantime I have had so many friends come forward and compliment me on my blogs and CD of the Day that I post up on my myspace page and I have been thinking of starting a portfolio of these and hopefully getting some kind of work writing for a music magazine or some kind of OC Weekly type thing with my music reviews, so Gordon has offered to build me a little website just for my CD reviews, I will have a link to that once it is finished. During the summer my very dear old friend Lisa came out to visit with me, I had not seen her since I was 18 and she asked me what I was doing with my writing because she had remembered that’s all I wanted to do when I was a kid… you know… I had completely forgot about that! I was like… Oh my gosh… that’s right, that’s all I wanted to be and do back then! I always preach on never forgetting where you came from or being a kid and here I wasn’t practicing what I preach… I had forgotten my childhood dream since I was 9!
So I am turning over a new leaf, I am trying to lead the life I have always wanted to and the biggest part about all of this is that I hope to relieve all this stress in my life and to finally be able to get pregnant. This is also a goal of mine and I hope to accomplish it. Out of all the reasons to leave the corporate life this were the number one thing and the most important of them all and I am so lucky to have a husband that is absolutely supportive over all of this and who is willing to take the leap of faith with me. With him it is so much easier I am so blessed.
Your Mom never worked?
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