One of the joys of living in the country happens about this time of year: a crop of wild raspberries grows at the wood’s edge of our yard.
I have to calculate the timing of harvest just right – after they’ve ripened enough and before the deer or the bears decide they’re ready. There’s that sweet spot of time that lasts a span of 5-7 days.
I basically live in the woods, so the berries that absorb the strongest sun ripen first and the others follow in their own time. There aren’t enough berries on any one day to can or make jam. Over the years, I’ve taken cereal, milk, and the just-picked berries to feed my team breakfast.
I was thinking of the berries today when my finance team held a surprise party for me in anticipation of my last day of work on June 30. After 22 years of working there in credit management, I’m leaving to pursue my Lifted Up business and volunteer work full time.
When I was first hired there in 1994, the company was a three generation, 87-year-old family business. It’s been bought and sold several times, and within the last six weeks, it became a publicly traded company. Over the past year especially, each day has brought challenging changes.
So I had a sweet spot of time there, and now it’s over. While I will certainly miss the people, I feel a tremendous sense of anticipation in leaving that career behind and moving forward to a new one.
I’m so glad that you, my readers, are along for the ride! A friend recently shared that she doesn’t understand how my writing a blog earns me money. In case you’re wondering the same thing, the answer is that it doesn’t. That’s because I don’t have advertising on my site.
What I need to do is build a “tribe” of readers who subscribe to receive and then actually read my twice-weekly posts. That way, when I’m ready to publish my children’s books and other material, I will be a more appealing author to a publishing company since I’ll already have demonstrated that I have a faithful audience. That’s YOU!
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To my readers: Do you have a story to share about leaving one career and starting another?
