VISUALIZING MYSELF IN TEN YEARS

Okay, let me start by saying in ten years from now, in the year 2030, I will be … wait for it… forty-seven(47). My goodness, let that sink in for a moment… This is proving to be a really difficult thought for me to put down on a page, let alone on a blog for the world to see… despite this; I did start writing this blog with the mindset that I have to put myself in this situation and as I already mentioned; to visualize where myself in ten years. So, with that out of the way, I will continue.

As I reached my pre-teens, I had discussed my goals as well as my future plans to where I would like to see myself as a Nurse or something in the medical field with family, relatives and friends. As I approached my twenties, I realized my dream of becoming a Nurse, even though was still practical and do-able, these educational costs are rising and I am unable to cover these expenses without the help of OSAP or a stable income. Between the ages of twenty-one to twenty-nine, I faced the challenges of becoming an adult; as in buying my own groceries, doing my own laundry, paying rent (and all related bills). Even though I have worked in various seasonal jobs; which included retail, customer service, the hospitality industry. Nevertheless, working as a bartender is the only full-time job I could obtain at this time, as much I hate to admit it. I didn’t want to be working in a bar really, but at the end of the day, believe it or not, it actually paid for the majority of the bills. So, I worked at a job I hated, met a guy who thankfully ended up as my boyfriend(more that later…), I paid my bills on time, I managed to cook on a budget and laundry was getting done. I was really proud of myself to be quite honest.

As I grew older into my thirties, I come to realize that; I am not married as yet, I have no children to call my own, that I have somewhat abandoned my idea of being a Nurse. But, no, not entirely true, I still wanted to get into this career, but I ran out of options as to what I can do to further myself in this field. From the age of thirty-five to the present day, even though I did hang up my many career hats, and in due course my bartending “hat” and started to ponder what’s the next step should/could/would be. I started volunteering at my neighborhood food bank with one of my good friends from back in the day. Soon, she got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and was really excited to start her own business. Eventually, I started to catch her enthusiasm and together, we started seeing results of working together with a common goal in mind; which combined both our career goals. She wanted to help seniors with their day to day activities, and I still wanted to be in the health field to some degree, where I still wanted to go to work knowing that rewarding feeling I would get from helping other people besides myself. For these reasons, we came together and discussed our goals and what we wanted to accomplish in regards to these goals, we realized that because there were so many competitors in this industry, we decided instead of working for somebody else, why not go into the business for ourselves and do all necessary work to keep the profits for ourselves.

Fast forward to the present day in 2020, we are getting things accomplished, we are putting out business cards, flyers, relying on others to advertise our business, and slowly we are getting some kind of recognition we need not only to boost our income but gaining the confidence that maybe we doing something that could have been achieved in our twenties/thirties.

Consequently, this concludes my blog here today. In ten years, sure I will be older, I may have not achieved my original dream of becoming a Nurse, but I sure don’t feel it, show it, or have the state of mind to slow down. Right now, I consider myself successful and am quite proud of the person I knew I was trying to be back in my pre-teens.