Living the life. I've often gone to IMGUR and envied the posts talking about how individuals or couples quit their high paying jobs to chase their dreams. My husband and I had spent years talking about what we wanted our lives to be like. Did we want to chase the money? Did we want careers with good work-life balance? What did work-life balance mean to us? It's every parents' dreams for their children to have a good life and better than theirs if possible. My parents struggled when I was young but they always encouraged me to be brave with my life choices even if they didn't always agree with them.
Graduating high school at 16, joining the Marine Corps at 17, going to Iraq as a contractor, working on multiple educational pursuits and multiple career pursuits has given me a unique look on the world. I know what it is like to make minimum wage, to make military pay, to make a six-figure income and back to making a hourly wage. My latest work experience having been a Program Manager in Washington D.C. with a good salary ended in August. I was so excited when I first started but after experiencing D.C. traffic, political appointees, a CEO with a questionable leadership style, disgruntled employees, I found my dream job wasn't so dreamy anymore. What saved me during the approximate year and a half I was working there was the long walks on the farm my husband and I used to walk on the weekends.
Frying Pan Farm Park was where we dreamed. It was where we talked about how we wanted to live our lives. Did we want to be city people and work in corporate offices for the rest of our lives? Or did we want to venture out of our comfort zone and go on adventures?
From before marriage we were going on adventures and since marriage our adventures continued and it was only a matter of time before we decided the best course of action was to be set free.
So I quit my job. We had the beginning of a plan but nothing concrete. Was it the wisest decision, quitting your job without a strong plan in place? Seems foolish and something you would do if you were single and still in your twenties. But we went for it and my husband joined the Coast Guard. Thus our adventure begins. We've been here for about 3 months now and it feels great. There has been nothing like it and I'm grateful for every moment I spend outside of the office and look forward to where life will lead us.
Graduating high school at 16, joining the Marine Corps at 17, going to Iraq as a contractor, working on multiple educational pursuits and multiple career pursuits has given me a unique look on the world. I know what it is like to make minimum wage, to make military pay, to make a six-figure income and back to making a hourly wage. My latest work experience having been a Program Manager in Washington D.C. with a good salary ended in August. I was so excited when I first started but after experiencing D.C. traffic, political appointees, a CEO with a questionable leadership style, disgruntled employees, I found my dream job wasn't so dreamy anymore. What saved me during the approximate year and a half I was working there was the long walks on the farm my husband and I used to walk on the weekends.
Frying Pan Farm Park was where we dreamed. It was where we talked about how we wanted to live our lives. Did we want to be city people and work in corporate offices for the rest of our lives? Or did we want to venture out of our comfort zone and go on adventures?
From before marriage we were going on adventures and since marriage our adventures continued and it was only a matter of time before we decided the best course of action was to be set free.
So I quit my job. We had the beginning of a plan but nothing concrete. Was it the wisest decision, quitting your job without a strong plan in place? Seems foolish and something you would do if you were single and still in your twenties. But we went for it and my husband joined the Coast Guard. Thus our adventure begins. We've been here for about 3 months now and it feels great. There has been nothing like it and I'm grateful for every moment I spend outside of the office and look forward to where life will lead us.
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