One of the most necessary and simultaneously difficult changes I need to make is a career one.
For people who know me, they know that I'm not a massive fan of my job. I wanted a job right out of college because I didn't want to be living at home not making money. I don't regret taking the corporate, 9-5 job I have in that respect, but I do regret staying as long as I have. I feel like I've pigeonholed myself into something that isn't me.
When I was first applying for this job I was applying for generic office work but I was also applying for jobs in theatre. In fact, my theatre resume was more impressive as I had worked on shows and in behind the scenes shops all through college. I even managed to get offered a job in theatre but I turned it down because the location wasn't very feasible for me to commute to and I couldn't afford to live closer.
Once I got my current job I kept applying to theatres for about 6 months before I decided that maybe it wasn't meant to be. My job is and was tolerable but now that it's almost 3 years later I've realized that tolerable isn't what I want from life.
That being said I'm not sure that I want a job in theatre specifically. I always had a love hate relationship with it that bordered closer to hate a lot of days. All I know is that it's a lot closer to what I want. I want to do something creative, something non-traditional, and above all something I'm actually motivated to see through.
I can't just quit my job. As much as I want to, I have a mortgage that needs to be paid so until I find something else this will be a journey of side projects and following my various passions to try. I'm going to try and build myself up through these undertakings into something that I can market to the jobs I actually want. I've realized that I can't wait for the right opportunity to come around, I have to start making the opportunities for myself.
Everyday I post on here I'm going to set myself three goals. I'm going to use this blog as my own way of holding myself accountable. Not many people will read this blog since I can't really advertise it (I'm friends with too many coworkers across my social media), but I will know it's out there and that is good enough for me.
Now, here's my first three goals.
A few months ago while I was scrapbooking away I made some cool glitter art and thought to myself that it looked like those "satisfying" videos you see on Instagram. I've recently been teaching myself social media marketing and have been using Hootsuite to run an Instagram account for my scrapbooking blog (the one passion project I never totally gave up on). I've decided to create a side account of satisfying glitter videos. I'm not sure how well it'll go and I'm not 100% sure on how to technically make it happen but my goal for the next month is to figure it out. So my first step will be to make gmail account for it and an associated Instagram. It's a start at the very least. I'll worry about content when I cross that bridge, but for now that's what I need to accomplish. One step at a time. I know if I bite off too much at once then I'll never get anything accomplished and I'll never stay consistent.
In the same vein of staying consistent, the backlog of scrapbooking content I had built up a few months ago is finally running out. I need to get ahead of myself again. This is a goal that I'm sure I'll have multiple times throughout the course of this blog, but such is life.
I also need to take better care of myself financially. It'll be easier to transition into the life I want if I'm in a better, more stable place. I need to stop buying unnecessary make up items (a weakness of mine) as often as I do. My goal is to not buy any makeup (at all) for the next month or so (trust me, I have quite the surplus built up). For most people this would be easy but trust me, this will be a change for me. I have decided on the date November 21 because I know rationally that around that time I will be runing out of essentials and I will be able to buy a lot of them on sale Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Hopefully this small change will cut down some of my expenses as well as force me to use more of the products I already have.
This is going to be a long journey, but I need to start somewhere. It is my hope that I will be able to use these goals to not only better myself but overall better my life as well.
Wish me luck. It's time to fix my life.
Summarized Goals:
1. Make glitter Instagram/email
2. Schedule all posts for the scrapbooking content across social media for the next week
3. Do not buy makeup until November 21
