It’s been a very long time since I last blogged. I remember starting this journey last year. I was so sure then I would stick to it. I wanted to stick to it, but life had a way of shifting things around into a crazy jumble.
Last year I was working for Amazon doing deliveries. I had big goals with work and a lot of things in place that I was waiting for, but despite it all things were stagnet. The beauty of stagnet career is it opens up the opportunity to really stress some of those dreams you have. Mine was writing my book and that’s where I eventually came up with the idea of blogging. Writing once a day to keep writing in my heart.
This all came to a tremendous hault when I was offered a job as an airline dispatcher. Now I’d interviewed for the position so I wasn’t completely caught of guard, but to start this job required moving five hours from our home and doing a lot of at home training. All this extra work pushed out any time for writing. I hoped once training was finished and we got comfortable again I could start up again, but then another opportunity arose.
Years ago I applied to become an Air Traffic Controller. This can be a long endeavor as you have to take a test to show your qualified to go to class to prove your qualified to be placed at a facility to show your qualified till finally your a controller. All that is after getting into a class. So two years ago I found out I was qualified. A year and a half ago I was told I would receive a class, then after a year of waiting, I finally received a class a few weeks away from finishing my training as a dispatcher.
This was an even more intense training then before, and this time even more was at risk. If I failed in class I would lose this chance forever and I’d given up the only other job I really got excited about to start this training. So I put everything I had into my training and finally after about 10 months I’m finally to the point I feel like I have a mind outside of work again.
So it’s been a lot. My minds been completely consumed. I still want to write my book, I still want to keep blogging, but now it’s going to be slow running as I continue to train. I’ll be finished with training hopefully in the next few years and then I’ll be back to where I was a year ago.
Jacob Gittins 