For the past 6 years, I’ve been a loyal participant in Corporate Canada – consistently working 40-60 hour weeks – and largely identifying who I am with what I was doing between the hours of 8-6pm (7:30-8pm, 8-11pm..). Although it wasn’t all work all the time, I was fortunate enough to use all of my four weeks vacation and also take extended leaves – allowing myself to enjoy three weeks in Africa, three weeks in South America, and a recent month in Singapore, Nepal and Australia. I’d try to get out of Toronto at least once a month to break things up - taking weekend getaways to Boston, LA, New York – living for cottage weekends in the spring and summer – and creating long weekends whenever I could. I wouldn’t say I live to work, but despite my travel and extracurricular interests it's likely more accurate than merely saying I work to live...
So after recently quitting my job and deciding to completely go it on my own – today is the first day I woke up, had breakfast, read the paper.. and then sat down to get started on my work day in my home office. No commute, no Monday morning meetings (no suit!!) – only total control of my day and my schedule - total control of myself.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
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