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I want to point out that a post-corporate existence may lie in store for many talented and hardworking people, and why it is urgent to prepare for for that eventuality as soon as possible. If you are employed in a … Continue reading →

This is the third post in a series about living and working in a post-corporate adventure. I have to call it an adventure because I never been this way before and it doesn’t resemble anything I expected. The biggest surprise for me was that blogging has a lot to do with the adventure.

Blogging was the key to discovering how my life was changing. I have never kept a diary and have only scraps of notes and bales of unsorted photos to record my adult life. As a result, my memories of the past were highly selective by choice, mostly memories of good places to eat and times with good friends.

This blog, which was foisted upon an unsuspecting world in October 2003, started out as effort to set down my observations about life and business so that I could finally let go of them in good conscience. I didn’t realize this at first. All I knew was that ideas for posts just kept coming, in an unending flood. I would write about an area of work or life until that area was no longer "interesting". Another topic would pop up immediately and clamor to be heard.

It took more than a year to realize that I have been holding on to these memories in the hope that I could share them with others and help someone else to avoid the disappointments and capture the triumphs I had encountered. It was as though forgetting these ideas would be an act of irresponsibility, at least in my judgment.

This proved to be true.

Once my observations were let free on the internet, I found myself experiencing a great feeling of relief, as though I had put down a burden of long duration. The more I wrote, the lighter and more enthusiastic I felt.

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