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Taking the Big Dive Part 1 – consider freelance

Without getting into quasi-science beliefs and moments of supernatural inspiration (get a self-help book if you want that), I really think that people go through life to complete some unforeseen and presently unimaginable goal. Being victims of circumstance, whether it be your college course or your present job, we tend to take life at its face value and accept what it brings us, regardless of its impact on our feelings and what we hope to achieve. If we love what happens, then hooray for us! And if we hate it, we revert to a defensive stance and chant a popular mantra of encouragement and self-denial such as “that’s life!”

This is all well and good, since such acts are testaments of our resiliency and the yearning for the ultimate triumph of the human soul over all worldly obstacles (such as your crabby boss). However, fighting against all the odds isn’t the only noteworthy characteristic of the human spirit.

When was the last time you checked yourself and asked if you were really happy with what you’re doing? If you aren’t even 100% sure that you are, you might want to get out of it, whether it’s with school and the course that you’ve mistakenly taken up, the job you can’t believe you’re working in, or quite simply a terrible and horrifyingly stagnant relationship with a significant other who undervalues you. It’s something to be in a rough patch that you could solve and get over, but it’s another totally different scenario to feel like you’re in some bolgia of hell.

If the problem is scholastic in nature, shifting courses or even schools is a normal occurrence in college, unlike elementary and high school wherein you more or less didn’t have a choice really but to finish and rid yourself of the bindings of our traditional school system. If it’s your girlfriend or boyfriend, you could probably figure that one out yourself.

If your problem is your job, you might want to consider leaving it and going freelance for a while. Why freelance in the first place, and not just take a nice long vacation in the Caribbean or some far-flung local province for some intense soul searching? It’s my opinion that vacations are there for rejuvenation and basically “getting away from it all.” A vacation will NOT change the reality that you’re working in a place you hate so much. You only yearn for another vacation even more!

If you’ve finally decided to leave your job, why isn’t it advisable to take a long vacation anyway? For one thing, you get out of the mindset of work and get into an everyday party frame of mind instead. That’s great and all if you aren’t supporting yourself or live on a big fat trust fund (why are you even working in the first place?) but if you’ve got bills to pay, mouths to feed and alcohol to guzzle, you can’t just stop working completely. Enter the wonderful world of freelance!

Freelance work, whether it be corporate or non-corporate, allows for adequate transition time between jobs by being a source of income to augment the finances you’ve set aside for this particularly crucial point in your career (you did save up a bit, didn’t you?). Working freelance in my opinion is a better alternative to a long vacation totally devoid of productivity because it keeps you in shape mentally and physically. Of course vacations such as these have a place in our lives beyond Spring Break, but the transition period between a job you hate and a job that you truly enjoy being in even though you’re overworked is truly significant.

Working freelance will also be beneficial for you even when you’ve landed your dream job. Although you’ll be taking on significantly less freelance jobs, the availability of sideline work gives you an opportunity to earn some by the way cash when you’ve got some extra time.

Getting into the work that you really want requires a lot of patience and determination, mainly because throughout your life you’ll be able to refine your search and realize what you really want, hopefully before it’s too late for you to be able to shift to it.

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