Making The Jump Plans Tentative Recovery
Sometimes, life can throw some unexpected twists at us that change our plans. For me, it’s a year (well, over a year now) of big changes in my life that have caused me to rethink my life’s goals and direction. Actually, if I really think about it, its been four years of big changes in my life:
- a divorce,
- 2 moves,
- graduating from law school and beginning my career, first as a law clerk, and then private practice,
- rethinking my career direction and deciding to jump back into working in the child welfare system (a big reason I went to law school in the first place);
- taking a nontraditional part-time job with the Department of Social Services coordinating an advisory board that reviews cases and recommends policy changes and developing some projects related to that board;
- getting remarried last August; and now
- having my first child, due August 12th.
So for awhile now, I’ve been making significant “jumps” that have changed most of the major parts of my life. While some of these changes have been stressful, and some of these changes are still somewhat stressful, overall my life is moving in the direction that I want it to go (although sometimes not fast enough for my liking).
When I started Making the Jump back in December, I contemplated creating a narrowly focused website for lawyers contemplating a career change out of the legal profession. But frankly, I wasn’t having any fun with it. So I stopped writing — and the longer I went without writing, the harder it became to pick it up again, mostly because I didn’t know what to say, and I didn’t know what I really wanted to do with this blog.
After spending a few months thinking, my tentative recovery plan for Making the Jump is to expand it a bit to focus more on all of the interesting jumps, turns and unexpected twists involved in the journey of life. I plan to still include items that are relevant to career choices for lawyers, but I also plan to include other things that I have found highly relevant to the career and life change choices that I’ve made - things like personal finance, learning to be frugal, finding better work/life balance, maintaining a relationship with my spouse, and finding purpose and meaning to why I’m here on this big planet. I suspect I’ll also add stuff as time goes on about the next big “jump” in my life — becoming a parent.
I hope you’ll stick with me as I begin this “blog recovery” project.
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Comments
Sticking with you! Have a blog myself and know what it’s like when it stops being fun. Had to come up with a way to rejuvenate my enjoyment of it. It looks like you’ve got a good plan and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Good luck!!
It sounds like you are back on track!! I wish you the best of luck and congratulations!! That is also a very essential part-time you started.. you should be proud of yourself.
This is interesting. I like how you expanded it. That is a parallel to what you experienced in your career too perhaps. You started out with a plan and somehow it changed because life just guided you that way.
Yeah I think I’ll stick with you. I’ll be back.