22 Reasons Why Its Worth Doing The Dirty Work To Live Your Dream Career - When I Grow Up

22 Reasons Why Its Worth Doing The Dirty Work To Live Your Dream Career - When I Grow Up My two sleepyheads at 12:17pm on a Tuesday A few weeks ago, my husband said to me: Ya know, babe, I finally feel like all those years of advertising brought me somewhere. It brought me to a place where I was able to leave my full-time job and go freelance over a year ago, but it wasnt about that. It was about right now being able to spend time with  our daughter and not have to be somewhere else for 40+ hours a week. She is why I stuck with it. She is why it was worth it. A statement like this, especially from my husband, makes me the happiest. I realized how right he was, and how lucky  worthwhile it was to take the blood, sweat, tears  and years of discovering and building our dream careers. I also liked how he incorporated all of his previous experience and decisions in his realization. It wasnt only about being a freelancer now  so he can spend entire days with our Baby Girl. It was about the fact that he spent years building up his skill set and connections in order to actually make it happen. Here are 22 of my own personal reasons for why Im so thankful and proud that I took the risky route and created my dream career: 1. Hours in the park with the baby in the middle of a weekday afternoon. 2. Noontime yoga classes without looking at the clock to make sure Im not over my lunch hour. 3. Impromptu or scheduled visits/lunches with  friends during the weekdays. 4. No early morning meetings, ever. 5. My friendlleagues (like colleagues whore my friends, k?). In past jobs I became close with 2 or 3 people in the office, but now I can count on dozens that fit the same bill. 6. Being able to make the authentic decision for me 24/7, whether its ditching the corporate attire or making music videos to promote my offerings 7. Doing errands quicker cause everyone else is at work. Youll never catch me food shopping on the weekends or doing the laundry after 5pm. 8. Never having a gorgeous day go to waste, cause I can always manage to spend some time  outside 9. Not having to worry that I have to sledge through an 8 hour workday when Im not feeling well or didnt get much sleep the night before 10. Power naps! I can take em pretty much whenever I want! 11. Being comfortable and confident that  my husband could quit his full-time job 3 years after I did. I freakin made it work, so why couldnt he? 12. No commuting! 13. Not having to go back to work after a maternity leave. Sure, Ive been working the entire time the babys been here, but its my choice and on my schedule. 14. Tangibly seeing the fruits of my labor, in the form of my clients putting the dream career pieces together then building it up! 15. A deep sense of fulfillment along with the feeling that Im  actually making a difference (instead of just booking someones travel or helping forge relationships with people Id never meet whose businesses I could care less about). 16. Having full reign to work on whatever feels good to me in the way that I want to grow my business. 17. Looking forward to 85% of the things I need get to do every day. 18. Taking vacation without worrying about how many days I have left to use and trying to predict when I might next need them. 19. Giving myself the opportunity to make unlimited income and achieve Big Dream accomplishments, like being published! 20. Getting to essentially attract and choose the people Id love working with the most. No cranky/bitchy/insane colleagues and managers here! 21. The 2:30pm Friday kiddie sing-along class I can go to weekly, no problem. 22. Working with others to help em do the same thing! This post was part of The Mama Bliss Is Blog Tour hosted by Kathy Stowell of Bliss Beyond Naptime. The Mama Bliss Is Blog Tour is helping to spread the word on the importance of mothers to tend to their self-care and creative practices first and foremost while contending with overwhelm in healthy and creative ways.