Was just scrolling through headlines about the fastest growing careers and smiling to myself.
By the time high school and/or college grads have what it takes to fill those roles the trend will be gone and something else far into the future will be making headlines.
It’s interesting how a job can fulfill different roles. In my case? It was an ends to a means.
- Needed to feed myself.
Paid the rent and put food on my table.
- Enabled me to do something I love.
Started in HR – got into Tech Writing – then Consulting – all of which fulfilled aspects of my soul.
- Segue to a dream.
Enabled me to pursue a lifelong dream of being a writer.
Note: If the Fortune 500 merger/acq hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have left to pursue that dream.
The silver lining to being put into an untenable situation.
The Reward?
Aside from being able to call my own shots? I got to marry my passion with my love of Mother Nature.
I go to parks with vibes to soak in the peace and the beauty.
Each day after I’ve finished my miles’ long walk to a certain park – am sitting peacefully with coffee and setting fingers to keyboard – I’m visited by these critters who bring such peace.
Critters I’ve loved since being a kid in Detroit where I used to feed them on the same lawn I hit softballs to my dad – often sending them way over his head and beyond the reach of his glove.
The Rythm of Love
What I’ve come to see is they wait until I’m quiet – my attention on the laptop
On my lifelong dream – my heart and soul’s love of writing – in the form of a manuscript
They appear in a specific order
Like the stepping stones we walk on the path to those dreams
- The bird
The male shows first then the juvenile – then the female.
- The squirrel
Who first runs across then makes his way closer and closer
- The Bunny
Who comes and patiently waits until I notice he’s there.
I get the sense they love the peace – the stillness of me sitting – one with the dream.
The Lesson?
When you follow your heart and not the trend the rewards are plentiful and build one upon the other.
Follow Your Heart
Be well!
Elizabeth Maxim 