03/03/2026
This is my month, not my birthday month, which I wholeheartedly believe should be celebrated for an entire month, but it is the month I retired, a wonderful nine years ago. As I have said I loved the people I worked with and many have become family. This is not the entire story, you may want to recline in your easy chair or sit back, cross your leg and get comfy, I’m a talker and it’s going to be apparent before this post is over.
So many people ask how I left? I had my business for several years before I retired. I’d go to in the morning before my full-time job began, work at my full-time job until lunch and finish out my day at market. Once I was home in the evenings I’d create more product. My intention was to work for myself, that was always the plan. It was a strong desire I had, and I was breathing, living and eating it.
Many people ask if my previous job was horrible, it wasn’t, I just had a burning desire to work for myself, that was it. I had horrible supervisor’s at previous positions I held, but that wasn’t the case here, I had great supervisor’s. On a tangent, when I was in college I promised myself if I worked in a horrible place I would leave, I owed that to myself.
Is there something that you have been wanting to do? Is there something that you have been dreaming of? Is there something that you could do so well, that you should share it with the rest of the world? Then do it! With social media, your friends and family as your free advertisers you don’t need anything else. Those evenings you’re free work on your dream, set some time aside for yourself and whatever that thought is, you’re more than worth it! I’m not going to lie, there have been times in the last nine years I’ve worked harder than ever, but I wouldn’t change it. Since beginning this business there has not been a single thing I want to do other than this job on any day!
