This week I talked all about the changes that are barging into my life these days. 3 weeks ago I quit my job at Apple … my job of ELEVEN years … to take a job at my local Starbucks as a Shift Supervisor.
11 years is a long time, but for various reasons I truly believe that this is the right move.
Working at Starbucks will move my morning and evening commute from 60-90 minutes to 15 minutes and will also give me shifts that sometimes free up my mornings and other times my afternoons. It’ll take some time to adjust, of course, but at the end of the day I’ll have …
More time with my family.
More time to work on things for the podcast.
More space to … breathe.
I also feel like this is the first step towards a much larger goal of one day working part time at Starbucks or Apple or whatever so that I can have health benefits for my family while working on various aspects of the What If Project as my my more “full-time” gig.
The podcast.
The interviews.
The editing.
The blog.
The writing.
The connecting with people.
The videos.
… All the things.
And I’m not sure that had I stayed at Apple making the money I was making and being in a “comfortable” spot (after 11 years) with the benefits, stock options, etc … I’m not sure I would have really set my eyes on that goal of being part-time. Apple was a retail job, but after 11 years it became sort of easy, sort of monotonous, sort of … boring. And when you get into an easy, monotonous, boring place that doesn’t feel like it requires as much brainpower or excitement, it can be really easy to become really stagnant and stuck and unable to move.
I was feeling that, I think.
This move, though, is really allowing me to wonder what that dream might look like and what that might be … how it might look and work. My mom always told me that she longed for me to have a “job” that didn’t feel like a job - a way to make money that somehow tied into my dreams and passions, into the things that bring me joy.
The work surrounding the What If Project does that for me, and so we’ll see what this next season of life brings to me.
Who knows.
Maybe I’ll be here for 6 months or maybe a year or maybe 11 years. I don’t know. Part of my brain is tired of trying to plan things out and create a map for what the future will or should look like. It’s exhausting. I think I’m ready to just roll into this next season and be here … now.
Be here … Now.
Ram Daas wrote a book by the same title and I think it’s something that we so often miss in our fast paced, competitive world. We’re always here, but thinking of the next thing.
I was at Apple thinking about what’s next.
I’m writing this having left Apple and being at Starbucks, thinking of what’s next.
Before Apple I pastored a church, thinking of what’s next.
And that’s OK, I guess, but sometimes in the wondering of what’s next it’s easy to miss the here and now. And so for this season of life I think I just want to take it one day and one moment at a time. I don’t want to think too much about tomorrow or next month or next year. I want to enjoy my family. Enjoy being close to home. Enjoy seeing them when they come and visit me for lunch. Enjoy the podcast. Enjoy the guests. Enjoy the books. Enjoy the upcoming holidays.
Have fun.
Feel the joy.
Embrace the wonder.
… And see where it all leads.
Be here … now.
✌️
Glenn
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