I’m around 12 years sober, and have struggled this year with a new dilemma, too many opportunities to choose from. What I thought I wanted, I don’t seem to want, and what I thought would be a great job offer, I received with stock and turned it down.
It’s quite amazing that I could receive a 6 figure job offer, with potential stock options which could range of course from zero to 7 figures, but just not feel enough warm and fuzzies to take the job. Then I walked into an AA meeting this morning and heard exactly what I needed to hear. A story about a 93-year-old multimillionaire that values his peace and serenity so much, that no matter what the figures around the deal are, if he felt any friction at all, he walks away.
“The whole course of things is to teach us faith” Emerson said. I think ultimately my next career is my own business, and that is why my heart didn’t feel 100% in it, and that is the right and honest thing to do, turn it down, walk away, despite it being more money I thought I’d ever make on a base salary. Having a big base salary was never my dream. Having my own successful business is, and therefore I set my heart on that, and only that.
“If you wanted it bad enough, you’d be doing it already.” I was once told that by a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and I’ve finally got enough to risk it all and go do just that. 12 years sober, I think I’ll do just that!
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