Giving Up Security in Favor of Adventure

With the re-opening of the country at the peak of the pandemic, I made the personal decision that I would not be going “back to work”. Not as an employee anyway…

See, I’ve been in the service industry since I first started working at age 15… 15 years ago. Being at the bottom of the totem pole really allows you to see the best and the worst in people.

I could always tell the people who were in a similar situation as me at some point in their lives. I would see the compassion in these people’s eyes. They would make a special point to look me in the eyes and thank me. They would make sure I felt seen and heard and appreciated. Those people always made my day.

Then there were the people who didn’t even treat me like a human. They wouldn’t look at me or talk to me, seeing me as below them. I was treated as a means to an end, a tool for them to get what they wanted.

Don’t get me wrong, I still believe in having a service oriented mindset… I just don’t want to be a professional ass kisser anymore.

So I left town with my boyfriend in his Dodge Promaster campervan with my laptop and a dream. Even though I hadn’t made money on the internet yet, I was determined I would make someting happen so I could stay on the road and be my own boss indefinitely.

(Side Note: My boyfriend has been a professional artist for the past 20 years and the pandemic shut down all of his art shows for the rest of the year. So he is trying to find…