Are you frustrated with how your finances and career look now? Well, welcome to the club. I guess you and I both are starting from scratch here, right?
As a really viral Tiktok song make its intro,
- A little context if you care to listen -
I decided to start a blog simply to keep track of my progress in the next days, weeks, months, and years to come. My goal is, quite simply, to find purpose and joy in my work and redirect my career in that direction, actually looking forward to the next Monday and not dreading my money-making perspectives and choices. Hopefully, that money-making part will grow and develop as well.
So here is where I stand right now:
- I was laid off from the last company I worked at because of a lack of investment to keep every employee. That was at the end of 2022.
- Before that, I went through two major burnout crises, where I actually had to go to the hospital with symptoms of a stroke (which was not happening). I've been trying to find an alternative to the corporate world ever since and this is what I've done so far:
- I've tried opening a small Canva template online shop, with a grand total of 1 sale (thanks mom)
- I tried freelancing and got 1 paying customer
- I've been trying affiliate marketing in various ways since December 2022 and have yet to make my first sale.
- I started a Tiktok page in the hopes of being monetized someday and promoting a free e-book I wrote about making a vision/mood board.
- I've been in and out of MANY recruitment processes, always almost but not quite getting the position.
And with the end of the last process I was a part of (and reached the final stage), where I wasn't approved, I just lost it. I was mad, I was pissed, and I even kicked my garbage can far.
I wondered if all the effort I was putting into getting a new job just to pay my bills was showing its fruits in the form of jumping from frustration to frustration until I find a new corporate position to be in for a few years. Was that the professional life I was bound to have? That I was told I was supposed to have? Hm, no...
So I decided that I will record everything that I'm doing in order to enjoy my work, my life, and my bank account. To show myself and hopefully some other internet strangers that life doesn't have to be like this, that if I end up in another corporate seat for a while, it doesn't have to be a dread, and that I can build something for myself and look back at all the breadcrumbs I registered here as part of my story of success.
So yeah, stick around if you please, and until the next post!
X.O.
IAS
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