Why I Returned to Being a Solopreneur and Started Creating and Writing Digitally

Digital Writing

And left a six-figure salary on the table

Before I started a family, I was a consultant and serial gig worker. In 2009, I got married and life took a different path. My wife and I met online. eHarmony. We were both running our own small businesses and single parents. We each had one young child, only 6 months apart in age.

We lived six hours apart. Our first date was on a ski hill. It was near the halfway point between us. Less than four months later we were married, moved in together, and had a third child on the way.

We both decided to step off cliffs of certainty. Why mess around — just get after it, has been our motto.

At the time, my consulting gigs required a lot of travel. I decided to ‘settle down’. I needed to be closer to home. I applied and was hired at a local community college as a project manager with salary, benefits and regular hours.

I was never cut out to work in an office — in a box. Much of my younger years involved working outside (forestry, fisheries, and tourism). Thankfully I worked with an excellent Vice President at the college and enjoyed the work.

I moved up the ladder quickly securing a job as the manager of an internal data team. Even though I am not a ‘data’ person. More of a people person. The bulk of the work was government data reporting. Not the most stimulating.

After less than two years, I was restless. I got a higher paying job with a healthcare organization. I moved up the ladder there. Within two years, I became a Director. Managing a relatively small team covering a massive geographic area (300,000 sq. km) — largely rural and remote.

When the COVID pandemic hit, I was in all-day emergency planning and response meetings for months on end. Almost six months. We devised an emergency response strategy for rural and remote communities in case of the need for evacuations. Only certain hospitals in the region could accommodate symptomatic or COVID-positive patients. Each of those had limited capacity and we had to plan for the worst, including possibilities of field hospitals and morgues at capacity.

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