I Quit a Job I Absolutely Loved
…and these are the powerful (and quite random) lessons I learned along the way.
I hadn’t had a ‘proper job’ in around ten years before this one came along. And not because I didn’t work — it was actually because, for all of that time, I had been working for myself as a freelance writer, artist and social media campaign manager.
However, a move abroad to an island paradise, a couple of kids and a holiday back home to the UK which ended up in us staying here more permanently despite our whole lives having just been established in a whole other country, meant that things were really up in the air for a while.
So, to tide things over and get us by while we rebuilt our lives in our home country, I decided to get a job. Yeah, seriously — a job.
Amazingly, after some visualising, journaling, scripting and prayer, the absolute perfect role for me suddenly blasted its way through the cosmos and landed in my lap. And when I say perfect, I actually mean it seemed pretty much perfect for me in every way.
In my role, I was to be doing all of the things that I am so absolutely passionate about: video production, writing, social media management, presenting, public speaking and more. I couldn’t believe that there was actually a job that existed out…