Sep 08
2010
Learning to Fly
When in our vacation to Mexico, me and my friend Gelu used to have long chats about our life and freedom – you know, those vacations chats; what if we wouldn’t be obliged to pay our mortgages, our cars lease and do day by day the same things: wakeup in the morning, bring kids to school, go to work and dig-dig-dig, turn back, eat, do stuff, go to bed and again.. and again..
We concluded that you still have to be in all of this – unless you won the lottery.
But.. you still have some freedom to change things.
Each of us are dreaming to change our lives, to have more freedom, to travel, to learn new ways, meet new people, do the work that we enjoy most, do something that adds value to our passing lives on this earth. Kids are probably the most important thing each of us achieve. Still, you wish more. Would be this the mid-life crisis..?
The fact is that when I was back, I decided is time to do a change and try something that would be more diverse, and ad more flexibility in my life.
This change would be first of all related to the job – the place where you spend at least 9 hours per day, not to count extra work and commuting (actually you spend at work more time than you spend with your family day by day).
And I decided is time to take my chance and try consultancy. Pick the projects I like and where I feel I can make a stand. Eventually work from distance and all those things you dream (pick a place where the water is warm and you don’t count the sunny days – and work from there for a few weeks/months ?).
To make the story short – here I am, since May, doing consultancy work for different organizations. Is different, I don’t know if is better or worse yet (there are pluses and minuses), but at least I’m trying.
Because I think each of us is having the duty to try and fulfill own dreams. Even if you passed 30s or 40s or 50s..
More learnings and findings about it will come in a longer article I hope.
Till then, I’ll post daily on twitter as usual (@LucianSavluc), put pictures on Flickr and keep my new presentation website – Centri.ca – updated.
I hope soon I’ll announce some good news about eLiberatica 2010 too.
Wish you a great summer!
PS – Some of you would still enjoy “Learning to Fly” …is never late.
