With my wedding in May of 2016, I felt like I couldn’t make any major changes before then – but I also realized that with all the cost-saving budgeting we had been doing\u00a0to afford our nuptials, I could afford to take a pay cut if it meant finding a job that gave me a better quality of life.<\/p>\n
Within 2 weeks of returning from my honeymoon,\u00a0I accepted a new job with a small but solid digital marketing firm. The changes to my work life were immediate. \u00a0But I still couldn’t break the habit of bringing my briefcase every day just in case.<\/p>\n
My new boss, however, did not expect us to work nights or weekends. \u00a0“We are not curing cancer here, there is no reason to work past 5 PM.”<\/em> \u00a0And she often will be the one shooing us out the door at 5:01.<\/p>\n A few months ago, a friend told me about a sale on laptops, and we snagged one on the last day of the sale. And even though I’ve not used it for work, it’s there if I ever did really need it.<\/p>\n This week, my boss called me in to the office and gave me a 5-minute, highly positive review and a raise. \u00a0It was official, I had found my new work home.<\/p>\n And that was it. \u00a0My last reason for carrying around the briefcase, and the significance attached to it, was gone.<\/p>\n So today, I pulled my well-loved orange purse down from my closet shelf, transferred over my few personal belongings from my briefcase, and left the house.<\/p>\n Big deal, right? \u00a0Yes, yes it is.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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