I Quit My Conventional High-Paid Job to After My Long-Forgotten Dream
Feel alive as I have never felt
Feel alive as I have never felt
When I was young, I dreamed to be an astronaut, a swimming teacher, till Miss Universe but my dream changed when I grew up.
I became an engineer after my father stepped with a master’s degree in chemical engineering. My dream was fulfilled.
On my first day at work, I felt like I got a whole world in my hands as if I walked on a cloud. I was excited about the bright future.
I learned and endured myself in a one-of-a-kind experience many people can only dream of.
I facilitated a project for a big oil and gas company and visited an offshore production platform by helicopter countless times, witnessing a miraculous massive installation done on and under the deep water.
Not to mention, I made a decent amount of money along the way. I was grateful for all I had received.
However, the same place where my dream was fulfilled was also the same place where my passion was killed.
My energy was sucked out as the demand for responsibility increased. Ten years passed with all my child's spirits completely dead.
I realized being an engineer was not what I thought. It was far from a fulfilling life. The hardest thing was to quit and reinvestigate my true passion.
Why? I invested too much and far in my career and would not want to leave it behind. I was struck by my illusion and the comfort of my lifestyle.
Not knowing that what I wanted was a job that fed my soul, I started another business in parallel. My goal was to retire faster and never again need to work a day in my life.
I made it to a certain success and eventually jumped into it full-time. I thought I finally found an escape route.
I am glad, my business didn’t work out the way I wanted. I found myself in a moral conflict with my business partners. It left me with no choice but to quit
I leaned into my boyfriend for comfort, but like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, he left me. I was brokenhearted and lost.
That rock bottom moment was an invitation for me to investigate my true passion. I am glad it happened.
When I have nothing to lose, I can hear what God whispers to my heart, and what He made me for from the beginning which I wrote about it in one of the articles, I lost my love but found my passion for writing.
I accepted the challenge without knowing I love writing and expressing myself. God knew what was in the corner of my heart that I didn't even know myself.
Starting something new, especially when I had very little skill but a load of insecurity was not something easy but when you love something, you just can’t stop thinking about it, doing it, and even failing it again and again. That is perhaps why some said only a fool who dreams.
At this moment of my life, living on an unknown journey I feel alive as I have never felt. The passion fed my soul and I will live my life never again forgetting what my dream is.
To the dream makers, out there, you are not alone. I see you there where your heart long to.
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