Absolutely not. A year ago today, I was two months into a new job, just at the brink of finishing my training and careening off on my own. As someone who has worked in software sales up until very recently, job security is a fleeting wish. You’re often only as good as your last month’s performance. And if you have two slow months, you can mostly kiss your ass goodbye. And it’s for this reason that SaaS salespeople don’t always have lasting longevity.
Since then, I have been through two different jobs of varying salaries. Did I expect a year ago that I would be where I am today? I didn’t expect job security, but I never could have guessed where I am today, trying to build two side-hustles into a legit, consistent business. These are both tasks of necessity, tasks that were equally part impulsive and part strategic
In most ways other than my career, things are fairly similar to how they were a year ago. As a single parent you try to build your life around routine. Routine helps prevent life from running off the rails. It doesn’t completely halt the insanity, but it adds a sense of order.
My son, who recently turned 13, is certainly much moodier than he was a year ago. The result of hormones running wild and an affinity for independence, the things we all go through as teens. So my parenting role has shifted, but has not changed. But, man, teenagers can be really trying on your patience when they want to be. It’s truly a test of your meddle.
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