I did it.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life…

When I woke up today I couldn’t get over the fact that today was the day. Within a few hours of waking, dressing, and driving to work, I was going to be jumping over my first hurdle of my new journey. And by the hurdle I mean “The change” that I have spoken about in my past few posts-



Leaving my job…

The past few months of my life have been eye opening. I have learned a tremendous amount about myself, my goals, and what I want for me and Michael. I realized that sometimes you have to take the road less traveled, challenge yourself, and do the hard thing as opposed to taking the easy way out. I have taken the easy way out many a time before. But this time things have to be different.

Being in the working world for the past three years has made me realize the following… nothing is perfect, you can love your job so much but there will always be something or SOMEONE you don’t like about it, challenging yourself is vital, being praised for doing something good is always encouraging, passing time on Facebook while getting paid to do a job is nice to a point but becomes boring when you feel you are getting up to go to work just to be on facebook – which I could do from home, I am a hard worker and deserve the chance to grow and to thrive, I sometimes underestimate myself and my abilities but know that I am stronger than I think, I come off sweet but I can bite J, and last but not least – you should never allow anyone to make you underestimate yourself or make you feel uncomfortable. There are so many more things I could write but that would take a long time…

As I was saying before, I have chosen to give final notice at my current place of work. For 2 years now, I have poured myself into this job…first willingly and then unwillingly as things became more unbearable. As I considered my current unhappiness at work between the end of last year and how I couldn’t imaging doing this forever, much alone another month or two - I had to do something. I needed to jump and take a risk.

So, that is what I did. At about 10:02 today I walked into my boss’s office and “blindsided” her with news of my impending resignation. I had over thought her reaction in my head much to my dismay. But as the day wore on the subtle hints and jabs that she made, whether intentional or unintentional is unknown, spoke volumes. The reaction that I thought I overestimated… was indeed, exactly what I had thought it would be. Condescending, backhanded and unappreciated.

But, all worth it…because, for everything that I have been through over the past couple years, I realized I am coming out the better person.

As I sit here typing to you, better yet, from work… I can’t help but smile and think that this is the right thing for me now. And despite the reaction that I got from one of my co-workers and ultimately my boss when I informed them I was leaving - I am really happy that I did what I did and jumped this first hurdle.

May this be the beginning of many open doors.