What’s a risk that paid off?
I’m not really one for deducing how risky something is or isn’t. If I want to do something, I usually go for it.
If I’m trying to decide on a decision and someone says ‘make a pros and cons list’, I roll my eyes.
I suppose being here, starting a blog, meant stepping out of the box for me. Not the writing and having the public read it part, but the fact that it’s called a “blog”. I don’t come from people who have blogs. And though it was Mom who kept nudging me to start a blog, now that I have, she warns me about sharing too much personal information with ‘strangers on the internet’.
The other thing that comes to mind when I think about risk-taking, (and people thought I was absolutely nuts for doing it by the way), was quitting my job where I had worked as a nurse for 24 years, giving up the seniority and paid vacation that comes with it, not to mention the annual bonuses we got every year, to take a term position (or contract basically) for one year as a college instructor.
The term position was extended to a permanent position thankfully, but had it not, and it had ended after one year, I guess I would have gone back to the Health Region for a job, but starting from square one, with no seniority hours or any vacation for a year. Also, back at the starting wage. Anyway, I never gave it a moment’s notice, didn’t bother even considering that might happen.
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