Change Is Hard

Good God! Change is hard! I am very much a person who thrives in routines, traditions, and sameness. I don't love change most of the time but I don't loathe it either. I understand that change is necessary but the bottom line is ~ it's really f***ing hard.

I'm in the process of trying to change my career and it's really scary. I'm 43!! I have had one career my whole adult life. I'm a wife and a mother and our family requires 2 incomes. It would be different if I was only responsible for myself ~ obviously!

I noticed in the last few years that my current job was really taking a toll on my mental health. I love being a counselor. I love helping people, especially kids! I have been a school counselor for 18 years and until very recently I never even thought of being anything else. I'm good at it and I love it. However, for reasons beyond myself, working within the public school system has become something that just doesn't work for me anymore.

I have been slowly making my way towards other ventures with the goal of opening my own practice at some point down the road. I'll share my whole pipe dream in another post!

Anyway, there's comfort in routine. There is safety in getting the same paycheck every 2 weeks! There is solace in job security!

I just feel like I can do so much more, be so much more and help people in a way that I just can't when my hands are tied by the bureaucracy of the American school system. Am I nuts?!!?

Honestly, I go back and forth. Do I pursue my dreams or recoil back to safety? The decision is not easy and either way there will be pros and cons, ups and downs, hurdles and rewards.

Have you ever made a huge life change? What was your experience? How did things work out?

What dream would you follow if the sky was the limit?!?