Work at home Jobs Starting Over At 49
Work at home Jobs Starting Over At 49
Starting over at 49 is not a title to capture ones eye’s but a present day reality that I am experiencing. For most individuals starting over is a career change, new job or with some ending a long relationship which can be an ominous task. For others a new and exciting chapter in ones life. For me at the beginning it was devastating to wake up and realize all that you have pain stakingly birthed had been in my eyes stolen. On a cool spring April day when nature began its new beginning I walked into my office for the last time, Began to collect my memories and carefully placed them into a cardboard box. I then reached into my briefcase, and retrieved the master keys to my empire only to hand them over to a bank representative.
I proceeded to walk through my restaurant door for the last time. To see all the dreams, the hard work, the tears, relationships and most of all the families that depended on me for their income just fade away. Its was like a dream but the only difference was that I couldn’t awake from it. It only seemed like yesterday that the contractor said congratulations and handed me the keys to our dreams. A seven thousand square foot full service restaurant, the completion of our hard work and absolute resolve. There is an unexplainable feeling of accomplishment when a dream and vision come to fruition. When you have experienced and overcome the mental, emotional and physical battle of the realization of a dream. One of the most difficult things for both of us during the birth of our vision was the skepticism we would encounter from our immediate family. Then to have all obstacles disappear and fade away when we begin to excel in our endeavor. It seemed to happen overnight we became number one in our market place with the waiting lines continuing to grow. A defining moment in my success was realized when I was able to purchase the car of my dreams. It wasn’t just an impulse but the car that I had seen thirty three years earlier as a teenager. It wasn’t the prestige of driving that car but it was the accomplishment of attaining a goal I had for 33 years. When as a young man I gazed at it and I said someday I will own that car.
During this period I discovered if I was able to solve a problem for someone else, that finances will be a by-product of it. My passion became a work at home serving others and making sure they had a great experience at my restaurant. As our success began to grow I often remembered as a kid that we were the family from the other side of the tracks. A vivid memory that would often come to me was how embarrassed I was when I stood in the lunch line in high school and when its was time to pay the cashier instead of cash I would give her my subsidies lunch ticket which we received thru the state. All those memories seemed to disappear with our on going success. I remembered my father often would say to us as kids things will change when my ship comes in. Well, my ship came in and we began to enjoy the fruit of our labor.
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