30-Day Blog Challenge. Day 1.
A mess.
My career, our apartment as I set up an office and the desk and shelf to build. I’m both OK and freaking out. I’m starting a freelance writing business. The mess will be all the learning, mistakes, and discoveries of the next couple of months.
I’ve never written for pay or started a business. There is a lot to learn.
I was recently let go by my coffee and water machine repair job.
I was on furlough for three months when I got the call. The weak reason for the layoff left me upset. It was the standard statement that businesses are opening with less staff and they need to make cuts. I fumed about different real reasons. Around one hundred machines hadn’t been touched in months.
While updating my resume I realized something simple and complex.
I had no experience repairing espresso machines. I got the job.
At the job before that, I had no experience doing maintenance at condos. I got the job.
In both jobs, the first three to four months were a mess of learning and getting used to the jobs.
On my first day I didn’t know how, nor was I expected, to do a complete teardown and rebuild of a coffee machine. Or, to diagnose issues with a condo building boiler.
I don’t have experience getting paid for words or hanging a kitten motivation poster, but I can learn. I can make a mess. That is what is driving me.
It’s hard to understand what something is until you start. And where you stand.
I’m starting this 30-day blog challenge to do something. To make a mess. It only stays a mess if I never learn from it.
I’ve been using the Scientific Method recently. That has reminded me to start rather than endlessly plan. Mess things up. Take notes. Learn. Figure out where next to make a mess.
I’m taking two months before I launch my business. That might change. I can’t say definitively because I’ve just started.
The difference is that I’m excited about this career.
I’m glad I was let go. I’ve been wanting to write for a while. When I recently opened the Trello app I got some motivation. The only file saved is “Starting a Freelance Business.” From 2018. I have a lot to learn. I don’t have to know everything before I start. It’s important to start making messes.
