While the title of this post sounds a little dramatic, today I did turn in a resignation letter to my day-time job. The job was well paying and secure. I had friends and freedom there, but it wasn’t what I was passionate about and the moment I thought I could get away to do what I was passionate away, I did. It wasn’t an easy decision though.
A week ago I asked God how I should be spending my time to create revenue. I decided to fast for 7 nights, skipping supper each night to pray instead. By the end of the week, my wife and I both came to the same conclusion. It was time to leave. After that, our ideas of how things should go slightly differ. She wants me to spend some time looking for another job and I want to take care of my current customers and build my own business, but I have a feeling I’ll do a little bit of both. I’ve already informed a couple of old jobs I had that I would be willing to work for them again when needed.
My wife is pregnant with our fourth child. We don’t yet know what the sex is or how many there might be or whether or not we’ll have insurance. My hope is that the path God led us down includes provisions for all of that and as long as I continue to pray and follow that path. I have goals and plans to focus on the Indianapolis web design business, Growmotion, and Cost Publishing, my blog network, while doing contract work for an Indianapolis computer repair firm and Watershawl [a web design and SEO company I ran from 2007 to 2012].
I don’t know what the future holds, but I have just under four weeks left at my current job to start finding out. I have to figure out how I’m going to structure my day working at home, how much time I’m going to spend with my family playing, teaching, and eating, and how much time I’m going to spend resting and reading. There are a lot of unknowns, but one thing is for sure, today is the first day of the rest of my life, but then again, every day is.