A Period of Transition: How My Life is Changing with a New Job

My desk as I head into my latest career move

Starting a new job is exciting, right?

You get a fresh start. You meet new clients, partners, co-workers. You get to re-invent yourself while using all the past skills you’ve acquired.

I started a new chapter at the end of January. My new job would involve working in areas new to me: fund-raising, developing new work, with a small dose of film. Yet, my existing skill set would be used more often: business development, marketing and most of all, leadership.

It wasn’t easy starting over again.

I didn’t sleep most of November and December, as I was wrestling with what to do next. I had been working at a start-up among a team I adored, but ultimately, I had to face the fact that to do what I wanted to do next, I needed to leave that place and that team behind. I was ready for a new challenge. Ready to go out on my own.

“No one cares about your career as much as you”, I was once told, and it’s 100% true.

Whatever career decisions you make will be yours and yours alone and you need to do what’s right for you.

Like most people, I work to make money and to provide for my family. But unlike most, I want to wake up every day passionate about what I do. Like any love affair, passion can fade. I’ve…