This past weekend, I went to
Blogher, a conference for woman who blog, in San Jose, CA. And I came away with some new technology (yes, I have to get firefox), some inspiration, that I really need to make some business cards and I really need a laptop and I need to leave the crap at home so I can really enjoy myself.
Before Blogher, I decided that I'm an unhappy camper and I need to really research, find, need, want, a new job.
Before this revelation (technically it's not a revelation. Over the last couple years, I tell myself and others {sometimes a mistake} that I need to look for a new job and this time I really mean it, damn it! So I start and I don't get very far and dive/hide/run back to my comfort zone.
I decided that I wanted to back into the world of design, for being absent for about 4 years. (*Side Note* I wasn't really absent, just went down another road of design and media called Digial Asset Management and also I haven't been too absent, I have had my business and that has given me a creative outlet.)
So I said to myself, after this Blogher weekend till the end of August (taking a wee bit o break around the weekend of the 18th for my 32nd birthday), you buckle down and really get focused of this job search adventure and you go girl.
But I had to put a few obsticles out of the way that was holding me back and that is credit card debt. So I recently paid it off and has made life so much sweeter. Like a ten ton brick was on my sholders.
So my plan is REDO, REDRAW and RENEW. Unfortunatly somethings are going to be pushed aside like family and friends but I will not lose my commitment to my current employer or my clients, I'm just going to be quiet for a bit.
For REDO, my resume needs to be updated and my blog will have a new face and theme. The new blog will have a new name (if I can) and be more directed to design.
For REDRAW, update web and physical portfolio. And for RENEW, renew a commitment to myself that I made a while ago that unfortunatly that got put aside. Can't really explain it but all I can say its RENEW.
So to friends and family, if you don't hear or see much of me in the next few weeks, I'm sorry and I love you and I hope you understand.
I say, "Good on ya!" Or "Knock 'em dead, Kid!"
Remember one bite at a time, chew thoroughly, and before you know it the whole big wheel of cheese has been digested.
;o)