So.......the day has come and I......... (deep breath......even deeper) QUIT MY JOB! I have no job lined up, I am scared to death, and I put my 2 week notice in. Just like that, I sat my team down in the conference room and as they stared down at me, I got teary eyed, and I told them that I was leaving. There....whew, got that over with. Now I can breathe, I can be me, I CAN LIVE!
Let me explain a few things. I started a new job last January in 2014. It was an amazing opportunity that seemingly came around at a time in my life when I was ready for a career move, and given that this was a career promotion for me, the opportunity could not have been any better. Things were going really well until this past January when my new boss started. We will call him Bob to keep him anonymous. In a nutshell, Bob took my position in which I was a Senior Manager, twisted it up, changed everything, and essentially created a completely new role that I had zero interest in doing. Why would I want to manage a call center, which was completely different than what I was hired to do, when I had built up a pretty good career over the last 15 years in which I have held executive positions overseeing as many as 17 employees, managing large loan delinquency portfolios for billion dollar credit unions. In his eyes I was a nobody. In a matter of a few months he had changed so much of what I did, reassigned so many of my projects, took away certain authorities, to the point where I was losing my identity in a company where at one time I was somebody who felt fulfilled and I had a purpose. He redirected other team members to go to him directly for any needs over our department, and there I was, left to babysit the team and put together power point presentations in a back corner. Well guess what? Nobody puts baby in a corner!
The days of working in an office with clique after clique are over! I want to work for a company that respects me for me and trusts and respects my judgment based off of my experience and years of working in a specific industry, not based off what I look like or who my 'office friends' are. I don't care about your stupid candy bars and cupboards of snacks that only added on to my butt and thighs over the last 2 years, and I can play video games at home with my family if I want to. My point here is that we must look beyond the pretty picture that is painted for us when making a change of any sort in life. The grass is most certainly not always greener on the other side. I'm not saying that it can't be, but in many cases it is not.
It seriously just hit me a few weeks ago that I was tired of being miserable every single day of my life as I fought almost 2 hours of traffic one way daily, to get to a job that I was being disrespected at on a regular basis. No one in life should ever have to be miserable and treated poorly. We all have choices in life, I don't care who you are, where you live, or what you do for a living. If you are miserable at your job then do something about it. This doesn't pertain only to work either. If you are unhappy with your financial situation, your relationships, where you live, your health, then DO SOMETHING! Every single thing that I just listed has a resolution. There are things that you can do to improve your health just as there are things that you can do to change your financial situation. We all have choices and various resources in life to assist us in some way to make changes that we are seeking. Get a part time job if you need extra money. Start walking in your neighborhood to better your health. Walking is free which means no added gym costs that a lot of people can't afford to add on to their household budgets right now. If you are involved in toxic relationships, get rid of those people!! Misery loves company and we should all love ourselves enough to make the necessary changes to get out of the misery club.
Monday, July 20, 2015 is the day that I said goodbye to the misery club and hello to my future! I am FREE to live the life that I want and the life that I choose! I am searching for happiness and not in the form of a 6 figure salary. I want to pursue a passion, something that I wake up every day exited to do. If that means a pay cut well then so be it. My health, my family, and my overall well being are worth far more than any dollar could ever do for me. Money doesn't equal happiness and I am living proof of that.
I leave you all with this thought. We only have one life to live; we get one shot at it. Take a leap of faith and make it count! #Pursue #Your #Happy
