A job should always be more than a job

You are going to spend 40 hours a week at the least at your job. You will probably spend more time there than you will with your family some weeks. You should love it. You should really like the people you work with and the people you work for. Today Seth Godin wrote about that, and for those of you that know me, you know how much this piece resonated with me; especially the line about who you work for: "Work for someone who plays the fads and you'll discover that instead of building a steadily improving brand, you're jumping from one thing to another, enduring layoffs in-between gold rushes." We forget how important finding a new job is. Especially in an economy like this it's easy to grab the next thing that comes along, but will that really lead to happiness?

Ultimate Bootcamp

So, I am officially crazy. Two weeks ago, I turned 29 and to be frank, it hasn't been going over well. I am feeling the way most educated, career oriented women feel at 30. Yes, I know it's just a year away, but seriously my 29 is most people's 30, at least I hope.

In this instance of crazy I decided to join two friends, one who is turning 30 in a few weeks, for Ultimate Bootcamp. I get up at 5:30AM Monday through Thursdays and I go in the cold down to a park in Charlestown and I get my ass kicked by strangers. That came out funny. I don't literally get beat up, but I don't think my body would know the difference at this point. Ultimate Bootcamp is basically an outdoor gym and personal training, except you do it in a group of about 30 people and you do it outside, in October. I could have gone earlier, I should have gone earlier, but as I said, CRAZY!

It's been cold, I look funny when I walk now, and I look at myself in the mirror at 5:45am and think, "WTF are you doing?!?!?" I find it even more ironic that I used to be a personal trainer when I was in college. It's not like I didn't get up at 5:30am to meet clients at 6am for training sessions before my 8am classes, but I have fallen way off that wagon, and getting back on is tough!

So, for all of you snuggled up in your beds at 6am Monday through Thursday the next four weeks, enjoy. I will be the one getting her ass kicked at a park in Charlestown... the one of 30 other crazies who just don't know how to say "NO!"