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Next Step: Go in any direction doesn't matter, just go.

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I started to feel like I was having a midlife crisis... but not in a get a new Ferrari kind of way. More of like get a new career kind of way. So I started looking around and talking about it just to see what was out there. My partner worked for Microsoft at the time and started to send me postings that he felt like I would be a good match for. Honestly after looking at them I was 1) pissed that I went into community mental health rather than into tech and 2) Interested in the thought at pivoting to a different sector. I didn't know what that would look like and I know that Social Work is such a broad field that you can have many careers with one license. I was seeing jobs at Microsoft that sounded interesting and that I knew I could do. Specifically a role surrounding retaining diverse staff and leading a team. Oh I have all the ideas... but I didn't have the technical skills  that felt super daunting. We worked on building a new tech resume and that felt hard. I really didn...
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All the questions... Where do I begin? What's Next?

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She baaaaaack... and she ready! This blogging platform and goal setting has worked for me in the past so figured why not 🎝  do it again  (a la Jboog) ♫ About 9 months ago I started feeling really unsatisfied with my job. I felt like I had learned most of what I could lean from my current role and was starting to feel burnt out and bored. I still loved parts of my job but it was starting to feel less fulfilling. I was honestly pouring too much of myself into my work. Who hasn't been here? I work at an agency that is chronically short staff and the overachiever in my used to thrive off the achievement high that I got when I made magic happen with nothing. But this year, it didn't feel the same anymore. I had achieved things like single handedly tripling the size of my team, consistently met productivity numbers and achieved the highest staff retention rate in my region. Which IYKYK, this is no small feat in community mental health! I was running on auto pilot and felt like I ha...
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