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I did it! I’m in! I have secured a job in the internet marketing field. Mission accomplished.

So now I actually have to do it. Changing careers is full of ups and downs and really weird feelings. I packed up all of the items that need to go back to my old job yesterday. I turned off my blackberry. Weird. The rest of the night was full of an odd feeling that something was missing. It was really weird not to be running to see what’s going on when my blackberry made a noise. I did that job for 11 years. This is going to take some getting used to.

Wish me luck, I’m excited and nervous.

I absolutely love this movie, I’ve watching it a billion times and this is my favorite scene!

I suspect this may be segregated to women only, but why do women hate their friends? In the movie Julie & Julia there is a scene where Julie and her husband and best friend are eating dinner talking about another friend’s endeavors and Julie asks, “What do you think it means if you don’t like your friends?” Her best friend replies, “It’s completely normal.” But her husband replies, “Men like their friends.”

I wonder if that’s true…

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I suffer from self doubt in a major way, but I’m working on it…I’m in the process of finally moving from one industry (healthcare) where I’ve been for the past 11 years, have climbed all the way to the top and have burnt out to a completely different field. There’s nothing left for me to give to the industry and nothing left to learn. I figured this out probably 5 or so years ago when I was still the President and CEO of my own non-medical home healthcare agency.

About a year ago I had finally freed myself from my old industry enough that I could jump into something new, one large hurdle was overcome, I had figured out what I wanted to do (internet marketing). But I ran face first into the second major hurdle in this career change process…no experience

So I set out on my journey to find experience. I started out playing with blogs, including this one. I captured the RSS feeds of every relevant blog about blogging, making money online, internet marketing, linkbuilding, social media, and web analytics. I bookmarked any and every tool I came across and have implemented a lot of what I’ve learned. I even took a small struggling .com and restructured it from top to bottom, they’re expected to post their first profit this year after several years reporting a loss. Success!

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While poking around in my GoogleReader this morning, I came across a great little article at Zen Habits outlining 4 Simple Principles of Getting to Completion. If you don’t have this blog bookmarked, it may be a good idea for you to do so. Great stuff.

Anyway, it got me to thinking. I’ve made some decisions in my life, I admit, not so well thought out decisions. That I’ve spent the last five or so years digging myself out of. Mostly career related decisions that went awry. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and am about to finally be free, but why has it taken so long!? Because as Leo points out “Perfectionism is the enemy of completion”.

Part of the problem of overachiever-ism is a bit of perfectionism, sometimes it’s hard to move forward if the step you’re on isn’t perfect. But you can keep editing until you die and never move on if you continue on this path.

Wish me luck, I’m just about to the final steps!

Alright, here’s the deal…people who complain about their situation and then make excuses about every single solutions that comes their way to resist change INFURIATE me! Why is it so hard for people to accept that they need to do things for change to occur? Particularly when they keep complaining that things are just so miserable they couldn’t go on a second longer. If it’s really that bad then you’d think they’d try anything to get out of the situation, embrace change.

Nope.

Some people just can’t bring themselves to move onward and upward. Reason and logic are completely beyond them. I don’t understand and it drives me nuts.

All of a sudden, I have three interviews with marketing firms after searching the job market for months. My resume is loaded with great skills, I’m an executive right? Well…

I guess my work experience and success is difficult to quantify because I’m a small business owner and haven’t had a supervisor in eight years. There is no one to verify what is on my resume. Even though I offer a ton of references, people who have used my company or services. People I’ve come into contact with throughout my tenure in the social services industry. People who can vouch for the kind of work I do.

I’m glad to have these interviews after months of no calls at all. we’ll see what happens.

I had the bright idea to try out for the roller derby. My pal Angie and I went down to the neighborhood Skateland to see if we could stand up on skates, let alone get shoved around on them.

It was amazing to see some of the older people who were so graceful on skates. Even some older guys on rollerblades were kicking ass. The backward skate was mesmerizing!

I needed to start out easy though. Maybe try standing on skates before I go flying backwards on them. Turns out I can still skate and can even do crossovers! However, I have a bit of trouble stopping and cannot take a fall.

I was skating around the rink minding my own bees wax when two little girls decided to stop in the middle of the rink. I think one of them may have fallen. I did my best to avoid them and in the process, I touched my skates together. It was all over after that. I smacked onto the concrete in a not so graceful belly flop. Thank goodness, I put my arm out because I smacked my face against it and gave myself a minor concussion and whiplash. I’m glad I didn’t crack my head on the concrete.

Now my neck is killing me. It was totally worth it now, I can’t wait to continue training and compete against other girls!

All right, let’s talk about communication for a minute. The female communication dynamic is FUCKED UP! Men have no idea how much of what is communicated between girls is non-verbal. It’s ridiculous, for some reason women can never just say what’s on their mind and this is probably why men don’t have a clue most of the time.

Eye contact, glances from across the table, random silence, body language. Being female, I don’t even understand what the heck is going on half the time! The worst part about the way women communicate is when you don’t understand, then they take it all personal and freak out. How did I offend her when we didn’t say anything?

Maybe women just need to open their mouths and speak about what is on their mind. Who cares if you are considered rude, just say it so there is no bones about it. But then again, when women do that, other women try to read between the lines to figure out what they really meant. When there is no underlying message.

Ugh, I hate women.