Big Big Ba da Boom

Extra credit if you can name the movie reference to this blog’s title…I’ll give you a hint, it involves a fall…a woman with orange hair, and a flying taxi… but I digress. I chose this title because I recently took an uncomfortable leap of faith away from something that has provided me many years of financial security, self fulfillment, and a community of people I care about. Simply put, I left my job.

I will go on to say that I not only left my job, but a job I’d held for seventeen and a half years, and I did it without procuring another one first. How was I able to do this? Because I am blessed with a husband who loves me very much, who is at a place in his career where he could provide me some time to find what makes me happy, some time to work to pursue our dreams of travel, and in the meantime hopefully figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

Part of the push for leaving involved the needs of family, and the desire for freedom of being able to offer support where it was needed. There simply weren’t enough hours in the day to be in multiple places at once, or to get what needed to be done on the weekends. This was only a part of the why though.

I started out with my prior company when it was a very small non-profit, and I watched it grow…and then almost die, and then grow again. I put my heart and soul into doing everything I could for my part to help it succeed. I would not call myself a key player, but I believed in the mission and knew I was a part of it’s beating heart. In the last couple of years I realized it had grown to a point where I didn’t recognize it anymore, in both good and bad ways. Moreover I didn’t recognize who I had become while trying to remain there. It was simply time to go.

So now??

Now I make time to grow myself. I make time for family. I make time for dreams. Was it the most fiscally responsible choice? Absolutely not. Am I beyond grateful to be given this opportunity? You have NO idea. Now it’s time to make the most of this opportunity. Simply put, it’s time to live. Leap and the flying taxi will appear.