Most of us get up and go to work out of a need to survive. We go to a job we hate (and one that doesn't appreciate us) to pay bills and provide a life for our families and our kids. I was one who was stuck in a dead end job. I was wasting away in a five by five cubicle slowly killing myself by eating M&M's and other unhealthy junk food on a daily basis. At the time it wasn't clear to me just how much being in this dead end job was really affecting me. The constant bad decisions by the management, the constant shuffle of temporary employees, and taking orders from clearly unqualified staff had secretly taken its toll on me. I was feeling burned out and it reflected in my home life. I was always snappy and irritable, I didn't want to go anywhere or do anything because I spent the weekend dreading Monday morning. I felt like because they didn't respect or appreciate me as an employee that they didn't deserve the very best that I had to offer as an employee so I gave them enough to adequately do my job. The reason for this was simple...inequality in the work place. I was in a dead end job where they were going to make sure I would never advance. All of those opportunities were going to those individuals who kissed up to the boss and played the game of office politics. The day I was released I was upset because the puppet that supposed to be my supervisor didn't even have the testicular fortitude to face me like a man and tell me what was going on. He sat in his office like a coward avoiding me all day. I was also upset because they waited until the end of the day to let me go and further more they insulted my intelligence by lying to me and saying they didn't have to give me a reason. After going home, cooling down, and giving it some thought I realized that I had a unique opportunity in front of me. Sitting in a cubicle doing their bidding was a waste of my time and talents with the advanced degrees that I hold. I didn't go to school to rot away in a cubicle, I went to school to be my own man and determine my own future by working for myself. I had done it before with my first paralegal company (which I sold) and I could do it again now. So I decided to turn my anger into action! I decided that I was never going to give someone as inept as the idiot i called a supervisor power over me ever again. I would reap the benefits of my hard work and success would be my reward as well as my revenge. I set about starting my company and something amazing happened. I found my old self again. As the calls started coming in my confidence in myself grew. Once I started feeling better about myself I joined a gym and started losing the depression weight I had packed on over the last two plus years. Now, I feel the freedom of having a bright future that I am in control of. I am ready to take whatever comes my way and I do not fear failure. Over my three years in my last position, I have met lots of entrepreneurs. Lawyers, Photographers, Caterers, Event Planners, Real Estate Agents etc. To those who may be reading this I encourage you to leave that dead end job and strike out on your own. Don't sit idly by and waste your time and talents on a worthless department and a dead end job! Invest in yourselves and do something that fulfills you. I did and I couldn't be happier!
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