Ever had a time in your life when everything was just going smooth as silk, and then a really bad event comes along that derails everything? That was my week last week.

I had just spent a couple of weeks visiting with friends and family, as I wrote about in my last post. I spent some time in Florida, getting ready to move back into my house. I came back to Atlanta ready to regroup, focus on making my instructional videos, and pay off the credit card bill I racked up while doing all the above.

It was Monday, and I was getting ready for my weekly standup meeting as they call it. Right when I was about to join in, my boss asks me if I can join in on a “quick Zoom call”. When I joined in on the call, I saw my boss and the HR lady, and I knew that wasn’t good. Sure enough, my week began by losing my job. Instant brakes on moving forward with my life.

Now I have to pull out of my rented room in Atlanta, take my things back to my parent’s place in Arkansas, and figure out a completely new course of action.

This is a path of life I’ve been on a time or two in my life, where I have at least a couple of options, and I can either go the usual path of getting the same job I’ve always had, or try something a bit different. Twenty years ago, it was disenchantment with my life that led me to living in Europe for a few years. About seven years ago, not being able to find work in Florida led me to renting out my house and heading West to go exploring for a couple of years, only to end up in Texas. Now this fork in the road has come up yet again. So what do I do this time, take the red pill or the blue pill?

I was talking with a friend about it the other day. As it turns out, he needs help opening his music venue in Connecticut. Just the thought of being around live music as I bartend and do whatever other duties come up is the most excitement I’ve felt about any kind of work related position in a long time. I need to work on landing another remote gig like I had before to pay the bills, but I’m liking the idea of veering in a completely different direction than staying where I am and keep working from home. Don’t get me wrong, working remote is where I want to stay, at least with my current profession, but I’ve tried to break away from that profession for a long time now, and I keep getting sucked right back into the same old situation just because that’s what I have on my resume.

My previous blog I wrote called Finding My Way was all about this very same quest that I find myself on again, and again, and again. I’ve gained a great deal of knowledge along this journey, and now it’s time to venture out once again. Let’s see what we run into this time.