Turning It Around

I really enjoy my job, but since I started blogging, over two years ago, writing (specifically blogging) has become the passion of my life. The job  pays the bills, but unlike in the past it doesn’t, in itself, inspire me any more. It makes me realise just how lucky I used to be, indeed still am, to have a job that I find interesting and stimulating. It’s just lost the ability to get me fired up like it used to.

More accurately of course it’s I who have changed. I’m more mature, perhaps more cynical, but most definitely more aware of opportunities outside what I used to consider was my career for life. I don’t believe a job for life exists any more, but a career or career path, developing over time as an industry’s needs change, that is still possible if you have the right mindset.

I’ve been lucky, only made redundant once, out of work for about four months in the last 15 years. Long term unemployment is not an option for me. Aside from the financial aspect, i.e. I’ll do anything to ensure I keep hold of the house and stuff I’ve worked hard for, being out of work would send me bonkers. I can’t imagine doing nothing, not striving to create.

There’s another thing. Despite my job being office based, it’s hugely creative, something that many outside my profession don’t realise. Looking in from the outside they perceive a job that looks mundane, grey, technical and boring. What they don’t realise is the ingenuity and left-hemisphere work that goes into what my colleagues and I do.

This is why I’ve taken to writing so readily. At school I was never good at English. Writing was a struggle and creative writing was a chore. This is odd because my imagination is vibrant and alive.

So what’s this post about? Nothing and everything I think would best describe it. It’s a statement of where I am at the moment and therefore about nothing I don’t know already. But writing it has me me realise that I have a good starting point to get my arse into gear and get motivated into doing something more than I have already. I’m proud of the blog Suze and I have created, and enriched by some of the relationships we’ve forged, but there’s more to do.

Onward and upward.

~ by alexsuze on June 14, 2007.