My Leap of faith moment was when I quit my job many years ago; it was one of the hardest but probably one of the best decisions I've made.
Credits:
Paper, Star Border, Torn Corner - Tracy Ann Robinson
Frame - Penny Springmann
Photo Overlay - Traci Murphy
Paper Curl Border, Compass - Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Stitching, Button Corner - Dani Mogstad
Word Art - Weeds & Wildflowers, Kim DeSmet
Stars & Strings - Gina Miller
Fonts - DJB MelindaS (Darcy Baldwin) for journaling, Jheri Curls
IBM photo - taken from the internet
Journaling:
"It was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make in my life. But I didn’t take the easy way out.
After a year at IBM, working as an internal auditor, I had come to dislike and even dread my job. Several factors went into that: a negative reaction from auditees from the very first audit I was on, a heavy amount of travel which played havoc with my health and well-being, the degree of tedious and endless paperwork, feeling like I had no place to call my office or a feeling of being “settled”, and a sense of discomfort after each audit that wasn’t truly helping anyone.
So I started thinking about leaving and talked about my feelings with one of my fellow auditors. Big mistake. They told my boss and I was given an ultimatum – leave IBM within two months or stay on for at least another year. I had one weekend to make my decision – my birthday weekend which I was spending in a Vermont campground with my then-boyfriend. Adding to the stress, I had had a car accident earlier that week and I ended up getting strep during that trip. Not the most optimal conditions to make such a serious decision.
As I laid in the tent most of the weekend, my thoughts ran constantly around this decision. I had only thought about looking for a job, I had not seriously started looking. I was also thinking about making a change in the direction in my career – I knew it was not just the company, it was the job I was unhappy with and unfortunately it was the one I was trained in. There was no assurance that I would find a job by the time the two months was over. I had no one else to help pay my bills, since I was living alone. Because I had been out of school only one year and had some debt from those years, I had little savings to cushion. But I knew I was incredibly unhappy and it would not get any better within a year.
In the end, I decided that I would need to leave the job. I had faith that in the end everything would work it out and I would be better off. It took a while, but it did. I am still paying off the debt incurred from the decision more than ten years later – debt from having no job for a short while and then a much lower-paying job for several years. And for years, I had to work two jobs to make ends meet. But in the end, I was a much happier person and I do not regret the decision I made. It was the right decision to lead me to my present happier life."
