Life Changing Moments

One evening I was sitting in front of the fire when I suddenly wondered what would happen if I was made redundant. Thinking about it prompted the idea of setting up my own business. The idea grew and grew. I was not made redundant, but I still decided to take the plunge into self employment. I was terrified but something drove me on. 16 years later I am still here, and so glad I did. It changed my life for the better in so many ways.

3 years ago I was unhappy in my job and had reached a ‘glass’ ceiling that I could see no way out of. I’d been applying for other jobs in the area but to no avail and with no great enthusiasm. Part of my general discontentment – aswell as the job – was that I was still living at home with my parents and unable to move out due to the ridiculous cost of property prices in the area and also due to the paltry salary I was getting!
Speaking to my cousin – who lived in Fife – one day on the telephone she said ‘Why don’t you come up here and find a job?’. It seemed like a mad idea at the time but the more I thought about it the more I knew that Scotland, specifically Edinburgh, was where I wanted to be. And so, having saved a couple of months salary to get me by initially I packed all my belongings in a car and headed North!
It was incredibly hard to leave behind my family and long time friends who’d seen me through thick and thin but I just kept thinking that if I didn’t go for it I would never know!
So 3 years on I am now on the property ladder, earning almost 10k per annum more than I was back home and, most positive of all, appreciate my parents, brother and grandmother so much more than I did when I saw them every day. I have a wonderful family and miss them dearly every day which makes the time I get to spend with them even more special. Don’t get me wrong, we still argue, what family doesn’t? However I try much harder now not to argue and to spend those precious moments with them appreciating them for the fabby people they are!