A New Start

After many previous attempts I have decided that it is about time I start a blog and actually keep it up for more than two weeks. There are a number of reasons behind this decision.

1. This week I handed my notice in at work. No I don’t have a fabulous new job. Yet. As of the 7th November I will be unemployed. A decision I have thought about long and hard. I have decided that I want to do something I feel passionate about. Something that will make me want to leap out of bed every morning (apart from Mondays – I’m not looking for the impossible!) I admit my timing could have been better. The looming global recession would put most off leaving a well-paid job with good benefits. But my intuition is telling me to take a leap into the unknown. I would like a record of this leap and all the excitement, just incase I need to keep reminding myself why I did it in the first place. Especially when I find all I have left in my purse is a £10 bet with Suzi that my first-born will be female (it may be the only way to make money by then!)

2. Not only am I leaving my job, I am also leaving London. I have chosen to become unemployed AND homeless. You may be justified in questioning my sanity right now, but lets face it over the next few months there will quite possibly be many more people in my position. At least I will be able to say it was my choice (followed shortly by an eruption of laughter from those listening). Anyway back to the point of number ‘2’. I will be leaving London to temporarily go and live back with my parents. I have a lot of friends down here and I will miss them dearly. This is a way of keeping in touch with everyone in between the emails, calls and visits.

3. By encouraging the people I have left behind in London to read this regularly it will spur me on to try and carve out a fulfilling career fairly quickly, so that I do not appear to have failed in my mission to improve my general levels of happiness. On the other hand if the successful career path fails, this blog will give me the opportunity to work on some fiction!

4. I also have friends in various continents. I am hopeless at keeping in touch, even though I miss them lots. In the moments between their many adventures they can read my blog. Comparing and contrasting their exciting lives with one of unemployment, northern weather and living with the folks, will make them smile. I love making other people happy.

5. Five is my lucky number (not that I have any specifically lucky experiences with it, I just like it). The fifth reason is that I would one day quite like it (read: over the moon and jumping up and down like a loony) if someone paid me some money for some writing I have done or could do in the future. In order to get someone to pay me to write, I have to prove that I can write. Practice makes perfect. So this blog is just that. Practice… not perfect!

Please feel free to discuss, critique and comment on anything I write. If you find yourself compelled to read regularly, thank you. And if you are a close friend who cares about my potential writing career, nagging is good if I appear to have stopped blogging!!!