Lady Gaga sings about being on the Edge of Glory, and
desperate people have been known to talk about the brink of the abyss. I’m
somewhere in between, at the moment, with more leanings towards the abyss than
glory. It will be interesting to see where it is that I land, should I fall, or
if I will be able to design my destiny and take flight!
Last November, the job that I was working at, got to me on a
couple of levels, as jobs have the ability to do. Or was it a case that this
one was just that proverbial straw, and quite a few previous jobs had started
to build up the pressure until this last one just pushed me that little too
far? Whichever the case may be, I decided that enough was enough, and I handed
my resignation in. This, of itself, isn’t anything unusual. The fact that I had
nothing new to go to, is unusual….at least for me.
When I handed my resignation in, giving 5 weeks notice to ensure
that there was plenty of time to find my replacement; I thought that I was just
going to get a new job and carry on, as per usual. However, after the Christmas
break (and when the job I’d just resigned from offered me a few shifts while
they found someone…I said one day, no more thanks. I had, after all, resigned
for a reason!) it dawned on me that maybe I could get about by getting a couple
of part-time jobs. That way, it would keep things interesting for me, and I
would still have some control over my work, so I could have more control over
my free time. I was very fortunate to pick up some more part-time hours, and so
life seemed very good.
Of course, neither of these lasted, and ended a little more
abruptly than I was expecting. I was given little to no warning, and in the
same week, both connections were terminated by the respective businesses. Now I’m
thinking of doing something entrepreneurial, and at the moment I’m recalling a
point that Robert Kyiosaki mentioned in a few of his books: how all his friends
where saying how he should just get a job when he and his wife found themselves
broke when they decided that they were going to be entrepreneurs, and how he
said that they didn’t want to get back into the Rat Race. While I’m not in as
dire straits as he was, I’m not exactly sitting pretty, either. My heart has
tended to beat a little faster and a little heavier the last few days if I
think about it too much. It doesn’t mean that I’m ignoring it, I’m just not
dwelling on the ‘what ifs’ too long.
I have an idea in mind, which I will need to put into place
pretty quick, and then we can see how that goes. If it works, I’ll probably
write a 500 about it and let you know how it went.
