Someone I knew in New York said, after I congratulated a mutual acquaintance on his new job, that I was so positive and that the break must have done me good. So I thought, YES, it did me a lot of good. Priceless, really, to have the time to think. I really got a lot of head-space, time to decide what I was doing with my life. Time to decide to be happy.
I have a job now, a great job that I am so looking forward to. I was reading over the human resources info last night, and I noticed that it is the first time in a long, long time (ever?) that I have been excited to READ THE HR HANDBOOK! True, I was panicking about getting the job in the end, so I’m likely excited just to get health insurance, but I am also excited because I actually chose to leave traditional publishing and start anew. I know some of the people (most of them, actually) I will be working with, yes, but this is a new venture, not the same stuff I was doing before. Another publishing marketing job, this isn’t.
So am I happy? Yes! Am I smiling more? Yes! Was leaving the work force and being without a job for 6 months the hardest thing I have done? Yes! Would I do it again if I had the choice to change things? Yes!
I’m a lucky girl. And a brave one, if I do say so myself.
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yay yay yayyyyyy!!!!!!!
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