Do you ever have a moment in your life where you decide something and then all of the sudden feel a wave of relief that you didn’t think you would feel until you made that decision??
This past week a made a pretty big career decision that I’m honestly really surprised I even made in the first place.
(I’m currently sitting at work, trying my damndest to stay the fuck awake and it is becoming very difficult so bare with me here)
All of high school and the reason I went to college was because I wanted to be a tattoo artist. I made a decision in high school and I thought that would be a really cool thing to do so why not? Right?
I went to college because I knew that my artistic skills were not when they needed to be and I endured the torture of art school (gag) just to make myself better to do this one career field.
Things didn’t go as planned. I dropped out of school after 3 1/2 years (in my program not my gen eds) because I got a tattoo apprenticeship offer!
Yeah, that ended up not going well. The guy was really creepy and he just ghosted me for three months. No word just gone. And at that point my husband had lost his job so I just stayed working and actually got promoted. I really miss working at the art store. It was a really good job.
So i worked and stayed the course just waiting for the right time to go back and find another artist but we were never in the place for me to take time off work to actually do an apprenticeship.
Then we finally decided to move out of state. My husband was not having luck with jobs and we both wanted to leave so we left. I decided to leave my tattoo artist dreams and have them come true in a new state where there would be better artists.
So i found a new job doing purchasing...and I’m really good at it. And I really like it.
Since I’ve started and been trying to get hired on permanently, my boss said something interesting to me. He said he would like to move me into an inside sales position because we have a few salesman retiring this year and he thinks I would be really good at it.
Yeah, it’s really not what I imagined and not what I had planned for myself but I really thing this is a good thing. I would have plenty of time to do art, and I could even sell it on the side and make extra money. I’ve also not felt this kind of relief in a long while. I can finally breathe.
That’s all I got. I just needed to word vomit....
Yeah it’s been a really slow day today at work.