Career change support
Hi All-
I believe in the power of this group and all the wise and heartfelt energy here is helping to bring about a coming carreer change for me. I could use your blessings as I take the first baby steps today toward living a life of freedom, which for right now means avoiding paying U.S. taxes. I currently do computer aided drafting for a research lab, before that I have done computer aided drafting for engineering firms for the last twenty-six years. Today I will be placing an ad in the local papers as a home help aid, basically to do housework, cooking and cleaning, providing eldercare and childcare. It will be fun to see what kind of work this wonderfully abundant universe will provide me with! I will be working two jobs from here on out, trying to start enough business so that I can afford to quit my office job that I have been very unhappy with for the last 2 years. Please send me your thoughts, encouragement or possible pitfalls I should watch out for as I strive to answer the call of the One Master.
Love and blessings to all.
Wendy
I predict you will be inundated
Hi Wendy,
And so the Universe does work in mysterious ways, I worked in elder care for many years...it is an underpayed, underappreciated job with more rewards than I can even count. Good luck and God Bless you for your giving spirit.
Much Love Carol Anne
Wonderful News!!!
When I started out in Architecture back in 1977 I was on a drafting board. I loved it. Standing up most of the day and moving about the large drafting table was good for mind and body. Then in the early 90's I began doing the same work on the computer. I loved the refreshing change for a while because I didn't have to use my old electric eraser anymore, but soon I began to feel that trapped in a cage feeling from sitting static and staring too long at a computer screen 8 hours a day, day after day. And commercial architecture meant projects lasting for up to and over a year at times. It was mentally exhausting, and I really missed the days of 100% residential architecture with all of its intimacy and creativity. Commercial architecture can be very mentally exhausting.
It became very clear to me in 1997 that I finally had to make a career change just like you are doing or I was going to make myself sick from the dead trapped in a cage feeling. It still involved a computer, but the ratio of design time was better (in printing/advertising/graphic design) and I was much more able to feel closure each day and leave my work at work when I left the office instead of carrying home a head full of work thoughts day after day.
I wish you well with such heartfelt and intimate experiential understanding, for I am so well acquainted with the need to get away from the intensity and duration of that kind of work. Holding you and yours in the Love and Light and divine birthright liberation of the One Infinite Creator, Chris
Great that we have similar experience
Thanks Chris-
It's great that I can relate to your job experience so well. I was doing residential (subdivision) design for engineering firms before the housing bubble burst and I loved it. Once I got away from that I was never quite so happy and now I work for these wonderful intelligent people at a lab but all the creativity is gone, I'm just a drafter for them and sit in a cubicle that litterally is about 6'x10' all day long. But for me the big impetus to get away is the paying for wars - I'd way rather clean toilets than do that! Hopefully, it won't come to much of that and I will get a chance to use my love of cooking for people who have special dietary needs, as well as whatever else they are willing to pay me to do.
Wendy
Thanks
Hi Carol Anne,
Thanks for your thoughts of abundance, this is exactly what I was hoping for.
Wendy
Something else I can really relate to
We sure have a whole lot in common. My love of cooking and experimenting with recipes started when I was a kid. I would hit the kitchen the moment my parents went out on a date for the evening. And one of my saddest professional moments (relating to your post) is when I had to leave such a fine group of people at ALSC Architects here in Spokane, the best firm and group of people I have ever worked with....
I still have an electric eraser and my old drafting equipment, along with a folding drafting board I made in 1977. Don't use it much anymore, but the skills are still in my hands. That never leaves us, like riding a bike. My scalar wave generator/antenna is residing on it now....
Hi Wendy,After basically
Hi Wendy,
After basically taking a year off, working from home a little and doing odd jobs here and there, I now have 2 hours to go before I start my new job today!......but don't laugh, ....computer aided drafting...Lol....how funny....I'm working for a commercial furniture company.....
I am so ready to get back to the office!...to the REGULAR pay check, to getting out of my mums place!....to sushi train lunches where I don't care how much I eat...and I can eat alot!......and maybe a new motorbike in coming months.....hmmmmm(smile)......I have been so broke and I am looking forward to the change....although it has been a little intimidating as well.........but my year has been good on other fronts and I wish you luck with your changes....as they say, change is as good as a holiday!...enjoy!
L
Jez
wishing you a great new adventure
Hi Wendy
I am sure you will love the change and the people you connect with will certainly appreciate a new and optomistic face :)
I am in the process of changing my career so can relate to much of what has been said. Getting stale at a job is no fun. I am self employed and have been for 17 years now - OMG that long! - and so am probably unemployable now. I don't think I could work for someone else anymore but a regular pay check would be nice. I carried on way too long as an upholsterer/curtain maker and was forced to change direction when my health protested. Well done you for changing before you are forced to.
Jez, how did your first day go? Great I hope.
with love to you all
val
Hi Val,It was a good
Hi Val,
It was a good day....was funny..didn't do anything really....my computer was tied up in paperwork, I was lost and got directions from the OWNER...DOH!...Lol....and I found I am sitting with the clowns of the office.....large company with over 800 people on site, about 35 in my office...and a guy from the factory lost it, went skits, and had no choice but to leave once he had calmed down...
It was an interesting first day.....
L
Jez
Wow! Jez! Interesting
Wow! Jez! Interesting times! Best of luck to you with all the skitterish earthlings that you will be working with... try not to smile to broadly coyote!
fairyfarmgirl
Wendy: I wish you the best of
Wendy:
I wish you the best of luck in one of the most undervalued and underpaid and second class citizen classist work in the Western world. Good Luck. I worked in mental health and in elder care and as a daycare teacher... all were horrible expereinces where my Light was not welcome and it was business as usual. I used to refer to my daycare job as baby prison and my mental health job as the warehouse... It was awful. In eldercare I was confronted with the abuse of the elderly by the hands of their children -- in some cases denying their parent food or toileting as "punishments" and tried my best to assist in stopping their behavior... the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowely and/or not at all--- everyone is only concerned with their bottom line... and that is 3D in a nutshell. I welcome the Shift of the Ages.
fairyfarmgirl
Go Wendy!
I wish you all the best in finding meaningful work, Wendy. I, too, have worked caring for the elderly both as a nurses aid in a convalescent home and as a hospice nurse. I particularly loved the hospice work.
I have always paid my taxes, as I believe that government in and of itself is not bad at all. In fact, government does a whole lot to make our lives easier and better, like schools, roads, welfare, social security, and lots more.
Almost half of our taxes are used for military purposes, so I very much support those who refuse to pay that part of their taxes. Yet I also believe that when the collective consciousness of our planet moves towards more love and cooperation, our government will follow and our taxes will all be used for good purposes. I trust that you are doing what you believe to be best and right in regards to this.
I invite you to envision the that job that would fulfill you most, Wendy, and see where that might lead you. Take care and enjoy the search!
With abundant love, joy, and support,
Fred
Wendy, good move and good luck...
Work that calls to our hearts is the best. Yes, aide work is low-paying and can be challenging, but it is so needed. I haven't done that work myself (except in a very informal capacity), but have been in close touch with it because of the situations of my ageing parents (now deceased) and a good friend of ours who has Alzheimer's and is living at home with his devoted wife. An indifferent aide can be a horror, but a compassionate aide is a bodhisattva. May your heart remain open at the times when your efforts seem unappreciated as well as when appreciated.
Regarding the matter of paying income taxes or not, or part of -- I personally respect any of those choices. If we could eliminate all the waste of tax revenues (half of all collected income tax according to the Grace Commission report under Ronald Reagan), all the interest that we pay on money created as debt (which is all of our currency that the Fed and other banks lend into existence), the money spent on the military (Fred says almost half of our taxes), and the money spent on secret black projects, (not to even mention bailout money for big banks and corporations), we would come up with literally zero (or less!) -- zero need for tax on our labor (income tax), which is what the Constitution mandates, and then all of the civil helps and services that the government provides could easily be paid for by other kinds of taxes (social security, capital gains, corporate, sales... whatever). That is, it seems clear that income tax per se is necessary only because of the cost of the abuses endemic in our system. And so... I totally support and respect your sentiment regarding taxes.
But, with Fred, I believe that all this will change when our collective minds/hearts change.
Bob
Paying taxes
Hi Bob, Fred, Jez, Fairy Farm Girl, Valstanton,
Maybe I should reconsider and learn apolstering and making curtains! Hopefully I will find what's right for me.
Thanks for all your advice-
Wendy
"proceed confidently"
Old Friend Henry David T. said,
"If you proceed confidently in the direction of your dreams ... and endeavor to live the life you have imagined ... YOU WILL MEET WITH SUCCESS UNEXPECTED IN COMMON HOURS".
May it be so. It is certainly time for some "uncommon hours", yes?
I big amen!!!
yowsa baby, amen to that.....
Courage...
Hi Wendy,
I ran across a quote last week and thought it might fit very well in wishing you the best in your “transition”.
"The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." ~ Frederick Buechner
I would say the world definitely has a deep hunger or need within the fields you are moving towards. To make a change from a job that you don’t like, to something more meaningful is a great and brave step to take. I believe that if we all went out and filled ourselves up on whatever makes us happiest, and brings the most meaning to our lives; this world would be a much different place.
May you be wholeheartedly surprised and overjoyed by the ease of this transition and amazed at the synchronicity that unfolds from your decision!
With Love,
Mary G.