Change

Change is hard. Today I left a job I’ve been at for 10 years. I know it is the right thing to do. Everything in my life for the past year or more has been steering me in this direction. But it’s still a difficult thing to leave people you care about and to leave a secure, familiar environment.

I learned quite a bit from this career I’m leaving behind. Quite a bit about what you should do in business, and what not to do. I’ve also found my “professional persona.” I know what I believe in and I definitely know more about how a business operates.

What will I do now you ask? Well, I’m actually busier for the next few months than I have been for the past year. I’m traveling, doing some remodeling projects on my house, writing, working more on Outdoorzy, launching an online magazine, consulting, sleeping in, doing a week on the AT, several multi-day paddling trips, spending more time with my wife, heading down to the Bahamas, and hopefully doing a bit of relaxing along the way.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me through this transition period. I promise I’m not going crazy.

..well, no crazier than I already am.

Sweet image taken by Fir002 on Wikipedia.

8 comments April 30th, 2008