- I WANT TO QUIT MY JOB AND MOVE TO DISNEY TRIAL
- I WANT TO QUIT MY JOB AND MOVE TO DISNEY PROFESSIONAL
Now I learn to cook all over the world! What do you do besides work? It must not have been totally terrible (after all, I did write for Ranger Rick Magazine when I was a kid), because Johnny Jet followed up with me a few months after that cruise and sent me on my first press trip. I updated it when I felt like and wrote travel diary posts that I’d basically be mortified for anyone to read now.
I WANT TO QUIT MY JOB AND MOVE TO DISNEY PROFESSIONAL
It wasn’t until she invited me as her guest on a cruise ship launch and just about everyone on board asked if I was a travel writer or travel blogger too, that I even realized there were professional bloggers. We’d meet up at least once a month for a sushi date and I’d gush (enviously) over her last month on safari, cruising to Australia, and the never ending list of fabulous places she’d been. Those chips began to fall in to place thanks to a friend and being in the right place at the right time over a decade later. I’ve wanted some sort of career that involved travel since I participated in a study abroad program in Costa Rica with my high school – that was in 1997. I no longer felt guilt, but there was something else holding me back from turning in my notice. I wasn’t feeling challenged or fulfilled at work anymore more like I was just going through the motions. By then I was also blogging five days a week and our blog had started to take off, we were being invited on many more press trips, and I was even speaking at conferences – both in the travel and higher education industries – about social media strategy.
I was no longer so integral to the success because I’d trained my team well. I took on a managerial role that revolved around a lot of reports and graphs. How could I ever let him down?Įventually I proved the ROI of offering customer service on social media and I was able to hire a team of people to do the day-to-day. I did it willingly because I loved social media management, because it was the right thing for the students…and because my boss put himself on the line to let me work from Italy. As the sole person responsible for social media, I answered students questions from cruise ships and the top of the Eiffel Tower.
I WANT TO QUIT MY JOB AND MOVE TO DISNEY TRIAL
I worked harder and longer than anyone else for the six months leading up to our move, for the six months of my telecommuting trial period, and for the next five years that I continued to work from Italy. Best of all, I would be able to have a six month period in which we would give telecommuting a try once Tim and I moved to Italy. A week later, another opportunity presented itself and I accepted a new position at the university. Ironically, my boss at the time and who telecommuted from another state said no.
When Tim’s job required a move not only across states, but to another whole continent, I had nothing to lose in asking if I could telecommute.
0 kommentar(er)
