As I was thinking about the prompts for this #weekend-engagement question, the one that stuck out to me the most was the question regarding work. Would I rather work a job that pays well (but that I strongly dislike), or have a job that I love yt forces me to live frugally? Well, as fate would have it, I've been living the latter for the past 20 years.
It's not all bad; I started in cost accounting and have done some fun things along the way. I've designed wastewater pretreatment plants, modeled wind turbines, and analyzed solids loss in cheese and alcohol loss in beer. These are things that make the debits and credits work bearable...project work that forces the brain to be creative in order to solve problems.
Yet here I am at 45 years of age. I'm now a CFO for two companies, I'm still making debits and credits, helping with debt restructuring, and doing the things one is supposed to do at this age with an accounting degree. The wage, flexibility, and comfort of living is good.
Yet I absolutely dread it.
If you have followed any of my work, you can probably sense I have a bit of a dreamer in me. I'm honestly more interested in taking photographs of stuff on the floor than figuring out the return on investment on new machines.
The dreamer in me would much rather quit my job and focus on content creation. Artistic content creation...the kind of work where I can take photos of the things I find interesting. The night sky, wildlife, water birds, heavy industrial machines, clouds, shadows, the world...everything in life that I enjoy.
As I've gotten older, I learned to realize that life isn't all about money and security. Sure, it's nice to have a solid career, as well as the means to support my family. Yet honestly, I can't stand the 45-55 hours of work each week that allows for that. I am 99% certain that tonight, around 3 AM, I will wake up and feel anxious about the coming week.
Did I mention I dread it?
So there...if I could, I would love to get involved with some type of content creation, full time. I could put it on YouTube, get that "fantasy van" I've been talking about forever, and explore and document the world with photographs and videos. I mean, it would be the dream, right? As cliche as it is, "one only lives once!"
What do you think? Are you in a similar situation as me? Or are you one of the fortunate ones who enjoys going to work Monday morning? Either way, drop a line below and let me know where your head is at too!
Thanks for reading, and hoping everyone out there is having a wonderful #weekend too!
