Francesca Villardi Treadmill Treats

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Francesca Villardi Treadmill Treats

Inspirational

Loving what you do

Loving what you do

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Loving what you do 


Since Monday was Valentine's day and since the world needs more love, I decided to write about love all this week. 


In today's series about love, I couldn't help but write about loving what you do. This is so important because most of us work 5 days a week, 40 hours a week and so you better like what you do. 


I always tell my daughter's this, especially now that they are at that age where they're trying to figure out what they want to do with the rest of their lives. I know they are conflicted about what they can do to make the most money, compared to what they would love to do.


But here's the thing if you pick a career and you spend $100,000 in student loans debt and then you find out that you don't love what you are doing, what did you just study or paid all this money for? 


Now you are stuck in that career, paying off that debt for years to come. I personally know a few of my friends that are stuck like that. One in particular whose parents wanted her to be an attorney and they kept pushing her. She went to college, listened to them and she did the right thing or so she thought. After years in school she finally became an attorney, she worked at it for a few years and then realized that she hated it with a passion.


She could have stayed in that career to please everyone else but she was so unhappy that she decided to go back to school and become a teacher. She had always wanted to be a teacher and she finally followed her heart, her passion and now years later she is still doing what she loves. Yes, she makes a lot, a lot less but this is her passion and she doesn't care. 


I know how it feels to hate your job. I once got a job offer with a friend, making great money. After taking the job I realized that her sister who was the boss was the devil. No, trust and believe, I am not exaggerating here. She would tell you one thing then the next day yell at you for doing it wrong even though she told you to do it that way.


You couldn't listen to music, you had to put your phone in a box when you got there. She was a control freak, a narcissist and she reminded me so much of my ex husband that it was scary. She was an equal opportunity bitch as she was not just bad to us but her family who worked with her as well. It got so bad that when I got off the exit to get to work I would literally break out in hives, and yes, I am serious.


I would pray in my car before going in, once I even anointed her office! (I know that only some of you will get that one)

I couldn't quit as I was right in the middle of purchasing a home so every day I had to go and make myself sick. 


The day before Christmas eve I went to the closing of my home and as soon as I signed the papers, I emailed her my 2 week resignation. She wrote me back and said I didn't have to bother coming in for the 2 weeks. I was so ecstatic, I wrote back and said "Well then, Merry Christmas to me!!!" 


I walked out on faith, I didn't have another job lined up. I had just bought this new home but all I knew was that I was gonna be happy, I didn't live 24 miserable years in an abusive relationship to now have a job that was also abusive and making me that unhappy.


Sometimes you need to just take that leap and do what it is that makes you happy. For me, I started my own company doing organizing and I haven't been happier. This is what I'm passionate about, this writing, this speaking to people, organizing people's homes and their lives….this is what I'm called to do.


Whether or not I get paid for it, I would still do it because I'm so passionate about it and I love it. See this is how you should live your life, I am telling you that money is not everything, and trust me I know.


 I walked away from a big lifestyle to having to work 3 jobs just to get by but here's the thing, every night I come home to my house, where I don't have to walk on eggshells and I can be me and I am truly happy. I am filled with peace and joy that I haven't felt in years and there is no money that could buy what I feel right now.


So today my friends and my girls, listen up, do what you love. Don't spend the majority of your life doing something you hate or don't like. Why waste the precious time you are giving doing that? Find something you really enjoy and make a career out of that. You may not be rolling in the money but I will tell you, you will be rolling in joy!


"Be the change you want to see"

@TreadmillTreats 



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