Has not working helped me to find me?

Okay, I'll admit it I have been overweight most of my life. I've been on most diets with no success. Lose it, gain it back, lose it, gain it back, and on and on and on. I did crafts and sewed for years, but could not find time (or maybe I just didn't feel like it) in the last decade

I've joined gyms and I do like working out. It's the sticking with it that is a problem.

Well, since I've been unemployed (April 2009), most of the time I sat around wondering what the heck I was gonna do. I'd surf the net, watch Days of Our Lives, and feel sorry for myself.

I've worked since before I got out of high school. I will not divulge exactly when that was, but it was awhile back. I changed jobs a lot and could never figure out what I really wanted to do. It took me six months before I started thinking. "There are things I would like to do, so why in the heck am I sitting around doing nothing when I could be using my brain?" DUH!!!

One day I decided I needed to learn to knit, so I took a class, then I took a jewelry class, I went back to counseling, and yes, in November I joined a gym.

That gym is Anytime Fitness. I love it because I can go when ever I want to, 24/7/365. I work out at my own pace. There are no prima donnas or massive weight lifters, just people like me. My friend Janet goes there also. I have really noticed the difference, I've lost inches and 25 pounds. That is amazing for me. While I was working I couldn't get the motivation to do this and I'm still trying to figure how why that was (can you say "Counselor").

I made all of my Christmas presents this year and felt good about it. So do I feel that all of this happiness is due to unemployment? I would say yes as scary as it is. Now don't run out and quit your job in hopes that you miraculously start doing new things. It took not having a job and some soul searching to motivate me.

I'm sure I'll go back to work one of these days, mostly because I don't like being broke. I do know now that as long as I don't have a job I'm going to keep learning new things and maybe that will lead me to my dream job. One can always hope!

Ciao!