I’ve only ever really had about 4 jobs in my life.
I worked in a fast food chain, a large banking company, a home care agency and a not for profit organisation. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend at least a year in most of my roles and 5 years being my longest, until being made redundant just before maternity leave.
The struggle was REAL getting back into work after taking a year off to have my youngest daughter. As ‘equal opportunities’ as the world supposedly is now, I found that many employers aren’t actually offering jobs for working mothers, which fit around school and family life, whilst providing a decent salary and the much needed boost to mental stimulation that most busy parents honestly need.
It’s exactly 1 week today that my time with my last job came to a very abrupt end. So this left me with a dilemma to solve and solve quickly.
Working to survive was never my #GOALS in life. Business has always been embodied in my framework from a tender age but the truth is, as you get older, money and all the fancy, glittery, sparkly things that come with it take priority and passion, gifting or skill and often time happiness get left gathering dust on the highest shelf.
I AM A CREATIVE!
Not to brag or ought, but God has blessed me with more than one talent (lol), but He also knew the roads I would take in life, which hasn’t always allowed me to use my gifts.
So here I am, staring straight into the face of my dilemma.
Should I go back to work or should I work for myself?
We all know the benefits of working for another person’s business. Majority of the responsibility is on them and maybe that is what has kept me there so long.
But me working for me? That’s something I have only dreamt of, wished for and prayed about.
Is this God opening a door for me? Is this fear presenting itself to delay the awesomeness God has around the corner?
What about money? What about family life and taking care of the kids? What about debt?
But what if it works? What if the hard work and faith pays off and in return we get to live an even better life than the one we have right now? What if I finally get to do the things I love and I am passionate about?
So I ask, TO JOB or NOT TO JOB?… That is my question.
“I see what you’ve done. Now see what I’ve done. I’ve opened a door before you that no one can slam shut. You don’t have much strength, I know that; you used what you had to keep my Word. You didn’t deny me when times were rough.” – Revelation 3 MSG
xoxo Kim
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