Welcome back one and all to my humble blog. I interrupt our normal longer articles on money and feelings and struggles to bring you a short update!

Over the course of the past week my current occupation has been crumbling. I received an ominous warning from my supervisor to keep working and keep my head down but to keep an eye out for other opportunities because things are heading in a bad direction. Cue the thunderbolts and maniacal laughter in the background.

So like any sane person would do; I interrogated the hell out of him. It garnered me less answers than I hoped for and produced even more questions than I started with. However basically there is a big shift in leadership in the company complete with a total overhaul of the current system of operations and all with questionable changes to the pay structure.

My supervisor assured me that he would be sticking in it for the foreseeable future in hopes of things turning around and getting back on track to being better. Like I said, he told me all of this while telling me that I should keep working but to keep an eye out for opportunities.

Now I had a dream the day before we discussed this and I will go into that later, but keep the timing of this dream in your mind. It happened the day before he sat me down to discuss all of that.

Two days after our conversation, I awoke half an hour before my alarm and upon checking my phone like was clockwork for me – what do I see? None other than the resignation letter written by my supervisor to the company and best wishes to the employees. I bolt out of my bed and start pacing the floor, no one else is awake and I have no one to talk to about it.

The whole day he is dodging my phone calls and not responding to my texts to the point where I was getting ready to lay down that night and I sent him one last text telling him that I enjoyed working with him and good luck on his next venture.

Within minutes he called me and it turned out that the changes weren’t sitting well with him and that the current leadership are very toxic people and he was just done with it. We spoke for a half hour and then got off of the phone.

So there is the first half of the story; the crumbling of my empire as I know it, my meal ticket to Financial Independence, my career for the long haul. But as they say “Broken roads lead to the best destinations” or something like that, you get my drift.

The second half of the story is the most exciting for me and brings me great joy to tell you about.

I am following my old supervisors’ advice about keeping working, but I have found my opportunity! Remember that dream that I told you to remember? Well that dream has stuck with me for the past week. Here it is:

I was moving through a customer’s house, like I would normally do for my current job. Unlike normal though I am carrying a tool belt around my waist and I am looking at a damaged wall. I was giving a quote to repair it. The customer stood next to me as I explained the process and she was nodding. When I was done explaining and told her what the estimate would be, she sighed happily and said “I expected it to cost more that is very reasonable. You’re hired.” We shook hands and I got to work.

I had worked construction for five years before I moved to my current job and while I worked hard at honing my skills I had never made it to the point where I was bidding jobs, even if I did; I would be quoting kitchens and bathrooms – not a simple drywall patch.

For the whole day after I had woken up I struggled to comprehend what the dream meant, and it wasn’t until the next day when I was speaking with my supervisor did it dawn on me. I know more than a modest amount about construction, yet wanted no part of working as part of a large construction crew. I realized that I was tired of working for others, helping develop others dreams while having mine kicked around.

My dream was telling me to start a handyman business. It is a small one man business where I get to ply my skills that I love as well as make clients happy with the changes I bring. So over the next six or seven months I will be developing my business while keeping my head down at my current job.

In the next couple weeks I will fill you in on the details as everything develops, but for now; I thank you for reading and I will see you this coming Thursday with our normal full sized article on “When is Enough actually Enough? Discussing Lifestyle according to Income Class”