Restoring my soul.

The last couple of months have been challenging to say the least. Moving interstate, beginning a “new” job (with the same company) in a new store with new people and personalities. Adjusting to country living and coming to new realisations.

I started writing three different stories, three very different genres and all very divergent. I was struggling with what I should write and who my audience should be and then tonight as I was going through some old journals that somehow made their way to SA with me, it hit me. I have a book right here in my Blog. I can take some of the posts I have made here and compile them into a book. Of course some of them will need to be extrapolated and more ideas added to pad it out. However I have a really good basis for an informative and fun guide book.

I also want to continue writing my smutty romance novel/novella. I am discovering that I am better suited to writing short stories as I find myself becoming bored with my characters and impatient with their development. So I will have to adjust the style of book I want with this one and maybe do a collection of short stories involving the same characters.

along with the story writing and extra journalling and blogging I am fast realising that my day to day job is not where I want to spend the rest of my working life. I enjoy the work enough, I am struggling with dealing with the public on a daily basis. My empathetic nervous system is going into shut down and I am exhausted at the end of each day, smiling and feigning interest in other people’s lives or moods. I really want a job/career where I can have the flexibility to work on my own for some of the week with limited exposure to the general public and their needs.

I need a position that fulfills my soul, that gives some sense of accomplishment and uses at least one of my many Diplomas or Degrees. however most of those jobs are only open to young people. Please continue to join me here as I work these things out and continue to make decisions and choices for my future.