TuckandStuiesMom
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better than I deserve!!!!! Got a big whoppin' promotion yesterday and day after tomorrow's my birthday (Viki -- I only WISH it were #49 LOL 
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The promotion thing has me thinking about the whole "let go and let God" concept... Last year (on my birthday) I basically walked away from a 25+ year career -- extremely financially rewarding but ego crushing / soul killing at the same time. No need to go into details here but it's like the story of the frog and the pot of hot water. You put a frog into a pot of almost boiling water, supposedly he'll hop out before any damage is done. BUT if you put a frog into a pot of tepid water and slowly raise the temperature, he'll stay in it until he boils to death. I was about 1 stinkin' degree away from boilin' to death and I just couldn't take it anymore...
I took 6 months and did a little house remodeling, got to know my kids better, ironed shirts for my dear hubby, put little braids in my horse's mane, read books like crazy, spent way too much time on the DIS
, helped my mom on some of her projects, cooked things that I'd never had the time to before -- and HEALED UP emotionally. Finally found another job at about 1/3 my previous salary that I was marginally qualified for (Accounting -- whoda thunk it???
). Another position where I've been working, came open this summer (pretty close to my all-time dream job) and yesterday, I was told that I got it. Woo-hoo!
I was SO SCARED when I quit my previous job but now, one year later, life is much fuller and richer that it had been for many, many years. I am so lucky and blessed. Fifty-three was a difficult (but necessary) year in lots of ways for me. Family and friends (you folks are SO INCLUDED in this group) helped me through it.
Thank you. Love you all.
).The promotion thing has me thinking about the whole "let go and let God" concept... Last year (on my birthday) I basically walked away from a 25+ year career -- extremely financially rewarding but ego crushing / soul killing at the same time. No need to go into details here but it's like the story of the frog and the pot of hot water. You put a frog into a pot of almost boiling water, supposedly he'll hop out before any damage is done. BUT if you put a frog into a pot of tepid water and slowly raise the temperature, he'll stay in it until he boils to death. I was about 1 stinkin' degree away from boilin' to death and I just couldn't take it anymore...
I took 6 months and did a little house remodeling, got to know my kids better, ironed shirts for my dear hubby, put little braids in my horse's mane, read books like crazy, spent way too much time on the DIS
, helped my mom on some of her projects, cooked things that I'd never had the time to before -- and HEALED UP emotionally. Finally found another job at about 1/3 my previous salary that I was marginally qualified for (Accounting -- whoda thunk it??? ). Another position where I've been working, came open this summer (pretty close to my all-time dream job) and yesterday, I was told that I got it. Woo-hoo! I was SO SCARED when I quit my previous job but now, one year later, life is much fuller and richer that it had been for many, many years. I am so lucky and blessed. Fifty-three was a difficult (but necessary) year in lots of ways for me. Family and friends (you folks are SO INCLUDED in this group) helped me through it.
Thank you. Love you all.
