This journey without employment has been a long one, but it went by super fast!
About this time last year, I had to make a difficult decision: continue my journey at AT&T (and possibly see another layoff in the future) or decide to leave the company effective 12.30.19 with no job offers lined up. All I could think about was juggling my mom’s surgery (it didn’t have a date yet, but I anticipated February, 2020) and working. I made the executive decision, with my hubby’s support, to leave.
A few days before my last day, my father was admitted to the hospital for a battery of issues I will not discuss. This was the second time in my life I saw my father cry. I worked from the hospital until my last day and on my last day, I packed up my laptop and went straight back to the hospital. My dad still has a long road and needs to be consistent with some lifestyle changes (I can’t even go there right now), but he was finally released a couple days later.
COVID happened 3 months later and before I knew it, I was a homeschool teacher…good thing I got my Substitute Teaching license a month before!
Fast forward to today. I made a commitment to myself last year when I decided to leave AT&T. I was taking a leap of faith and investing in myself. #BettingOnMe That wasn’t something I was accustomed to doing since I am one who puts the needs of others ahead of my own…every…single…time! #ImLearning But I was going to retool myself and make sure that my next role aligned with who I am and what I aspire to me. Part of that plan came to fruition today. I received my first post-employment certification…Six Sigma Green Belt! #CSSGB I still have 5 more courses to go in my other certifications, but this is a start…a welcomed start at that.
Now, I don’t know what that ideal job is going to look like when I am finally able to rejoin the workforce. What I do know, it will be right on time and I will be ready for it.
What I learned in all of this…God makes no mistakes and He is always right on time…but HIS time, not mine. I am extremely grateful for my rock of a family. I couldn’t imagine this journey without them.
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