Hello everybody!
I hope every one of you are doing well, wish you health and joy in these times of change on a daily basis. We the people living in the year 2020 know about change and hard times, don’t we? Because, what big changes have happened in 2020? Ain’t it true that this year has been just very different from last year.
At the beginning of the year, say March, there was a big tornado that torn apart some areas in Nashville and then, a couple of weeks later, the COVID19 pandemic hit us with it’s full power closing businesses and bringing sickness to an extended part of the population. We were stranded at home for several weeks to prevent spreading of the virus and we social distanced even from our loved ones in order to protect them.
I have been tested for COVID twice this year and fortunately it just has been a cold or the flu. But for other people it has meant to say goodbye to their loved ones and in a very sad way, because they are unable to sit next to them in their final moments.
This 2020 has brought changes in my life as well. A couple of weeks ago my son was diagnosed with autism level I and since then I have been looking for help and we have started speech therapy, working with him and always asking if it is real or if this is just me seeing things that are not there, like his socialization skills or the way he obsseses with a new song, a new book or a new movie. Anyway, it’s just a change on the way we need to enforce interaction with him and the therapist has told us very useful ways of teaching him how to answer questions. She said it is a matter of working every day and playing with him, spending more time with him.
Due to this demand of spending more time with him plus some changes in my current job, I´ve been searching for home based jobs at the bank. I have applied three times in the past 2 months but unfortunately I haven’t received any notice.
In the meantime I have explored the idea of pursuing a master’s degree in Digital Marketing because sometimes I feel like the bank job is ok for the money and to cover our family expenses but it doesn’t make me feel plenty. To be able to study a master’s degree in Digital Marketing can be a way of opening a door to a new future, a game changer and a formal attempt to be a freelancer, being an owner of my time and spend time doing what I like, promoting businesses, marketing entrepreneurship and helping businesses to make a living out of what they love to do. Right now it’s a possibility that I have put aside until I know more about how can autism affect performance at school and while I figure out a little more about the pandemic affecting classes, because my boy currently is at a daycare, but next year he will be going to regular school, say kindergarten and I don’t know if it will be required for me to stay home to help him on virtual classes or what.
At my current job I have reached the point where I know how to do my job comfortably without help, I have earned my insurance producer’s license and I’m about to enter the last part of the training that will enable me to sell insurance policies to bank customers. I have worked very hard for this license. I felt fulfilled when I passed the exam, plus I studied hard and for a long time to understand what is an annuity and how does it work.
More over this environment of pandemic closures in some businesses like the IHOP or the bankruptcy from JCPenney makes me think twice about becoming a freelancer. There’s inestability in the economy right now, a lot of people, specially servers among other industries have been directly affected my business closures and although banking is one of those industries that’s always going to be needed, banks can close branches.
So after that exerpt, what am i going to do, you may ask?
Well, the only thing I can do right now is pray to our Lord that may he take me by the hand and lead me to what’s best for my family. If God wants me in a new position, I know it is going to be better for my family. See, here it’s not a matter of money, although to be the owner of my time is tempting, more money will help us pay the cars faster or do extra payments for the furniture we just got delivered. The peace of mind of my family has no price to me. On the other hand, I have heard that taking leaps of faith is the way we broden our world, and that is very true. If I wouldn’t have moved to the USA 6 years ago, I wouldn’t have the marriage I’m so proud of and my little boy wouldn’t be with me! So taking risks pays off but I believe that it happens when from the bottom of our hearts we want to do God’s will in our life. So my best bet is to pray. Pray often.
So that’s it for today, pals. I hope that if you have something to say, write me a note and I will surely answer. In the midst of all these changes, my vow is to write in this blog more often than once every 3 years.
Enjoy and have a blessed day!
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