The Elephant in the room

Spoiler alert ya boy quit his job

Hey guys!

This is pretty much the first edition as my first article was mainly a preface so hopefully you guys aren’t bored yet cause we have a long ways to go! So about 10 days ago I submitted my letter of resignation for my job. I mainly just wanted to really focus on Nebraska Cornhusker football more than anything and my job would be in the way of that.. Okay as much as I wish that was the reason if it were the reason I don’t think my mental health would be okay if I was only focused on Nebraska football (If you need further proof of Nebraska’s incompetence at football see this →)

The Why:

Although I believe that there are lots of reasons to resign as I did I will list the main components. I went to a concert with the band Bleachers. The lead signer of the band is Jack Antonoff. In between songs he started talking to all of us in the audience about his time in the band “Fun” Turns out unlike the band’s namesake it wasn’t very fun for our man Jack. He said something that has stuck with me the last 3 months since. He said “I realized that I was climbing a ladder in which I had no interest of being on the top of” I was doing well with my career. Climbing the Property Pointe LLC ladder as if I was Alex Honnold (shoutout free solo). The thing I was realizing though the past few months is why am I climbing this ladder? Well the only reason I was doing my job was to continue receiving that bi-weekly paycheck.. That is NOT a good way to live life.

Secondly I was reading Phil Knight’s book “Shoe Dog” and in there he says “I’d tell men and women in their mid-twenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.” More simply put what I was doing was not my calling. I found no joy or fulfillment in it. So I quit.

What’s next? This is what is kind of beautiful, I have absolutely no clue. Luckily I have a decent amount of savings and I don’t have to rush into anything (a true blessing). So the only thing I can say for certain is next for me is that I am going to do what I want to do, I am going to be more adventurous, and I am going to try and find more joy in life.

This week I went on two hikes to mountain tops, played basketball in the middle of the day with no time crunch, read half a book (Die with Zero by Bill Perkins), played pickleball in the morning and at night on Wednesday, Spent some much needed time with old friends, drafted players for my fantasy football team (we will live and die off of Saquon Barkley which is such a riveting and perhaps irresponsible way to live), and spent 1% of the time checking my email which is an obscenely low percentage for me.

Some things I hope to accomplish during my “sabbatical”

• Run a Marathon (not in a sanctioned race probably just wake up and run til I get to 26.2 miles)

• Peak the Broads Fork Twin Peaks (10.5 miles and 5,200+ feet of elevation gain oof)

• Go to a live taping of the tonight show with Jimmy Kimmel (just in hopes my hero cousin Sal is there)

Til next week! Thank you so much for reading!