Oh I don’t know. Just quit my job. Went camping in Hawaii for ten days. Started back in college full time this week. Not too much other that I ‘spose.
As far as the job was concerned…it just became blindingly clear that commercial real estate appraisal would never be for me. Now, I THOUGHT this was maybe somewhat totally clear last summer when I was laid off from my other appraisal job. It had been the only firm I had ever been with and when this most recent firm called me up and offered me a job I thought “maybe I should try another firm”. Yeah…its the actual occupation. The thing is, I will just NEVER care all that much about a number. To me, that’s all it is. If you don’t know, commercial real estate appraisal means that you value income-producing real estate, which is anything from a four-plex apartment building to a downtown high rise office to a shopping center. It is the appraiser’s job to tell everyone a dollar figure for how much that building would get on an open market. And I just couldn’t care less is the REAL bottom line. When my coworkers are working 80+ hours every week and not going home to their spouses and children and are cranky all the time and swearing and shouting constantly…I just don’t get it. And I don’t really WANT to get it, you know? So for both of our best interests, I left.
And immediately jumped on a plane to Hawaii to camp on the north shore with the boyfriend for ten days. It was so freaking wonderful and awesome and totally worthy of its own post…which is coming…
…after I get through this first week of being back in school FULL TIME. It is so scary and exciting and rough and wonderful to be back! However, I might have totally forgotten how to study and do homework since its been about a hundred years since I’ve been in school. My bestest fried A Serious Girl (who OMG moved back to LA from NYC while I was in Hawaii and THAT is another AWESOME change in my life! OMG!!!) reminded me this week “growth only happens when you leave your comfort zone”, and I am certainly out of my freakin’ comfort zone right now, I’ll tell you! But you know what’s awesome? I am SO on my way to achieving the career that I actually dream about and for which I have SO much passion. And that? Is just about radical.
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