Four days after getting fired my job position was eliminated, I have no shortage of dreams I feel well-equipped to follow. Tonight (its 12:41am and I’ve been surfing for dreams for far too long), I am grateful for the possibility that lies ahead of me. Perhaps I will do any or all of these things:
- finish my book. use all my extra time to go on book tour and sell 100,000 copies
- start my own grant writing business
- retire by 30
- work at a book store
- travel to Africa
- become a vegan baker
- become a landscaper
- go back to school to study… (and here is where I’ve spent hours on the internet)…linguistics, English, rhetoric, education, african literature & languages, horticulture, real estate, business, creative writing, ???
- get another 40-hour/week job, 50 week/year. (omg, please help me if that is the choice)
- live off unemployment for as long as possible while taking amateur photos, baking vegan treats, and sewing quilts
- pour my energy back into the long-forgotten HideYourStash.com venture
- move to the mountains, ocean, or Australia
- take up short story writing
- start Ladies K LLC, for real
- ride my bike across the country
- teach more classes
- become an internet millionaire
- concentrate my efforts on getting on Oprah
- read all my favorite books
- run or ride my bike every day.
- eat chocolate cookies, drink red wine, and sulk about losing my job
- sleep late, stay up late, get on a crazy nocturnal schedule that only artists, writers, and the mentally ill can keep
- discover an alternative fuel source
- do some serious woodworking with my dad
- transform my blog into money-making-machine
- become the world’s best K-12 grant writer just to make ’em sorry they let me go
- become a bike mechanic
- teach Spinning classes
4 responses to “With the world at my fingertips…”
Oo- that ALL sounds wonderful! Do it all.
my vote: HideYourStash.com
obviously.
when you get on Oprah, please let me be by your side.
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