Starting over at #30

Scary cool times

I’m almost 30 and starting from scratch. 02 December 2019 was officially my last day working for a boss and travel to and form work hopefully, I will never have to do that to myself again.

Living and working 

Living and working in Cape Town is great if you don’t have to travel to work or if you live five minutes from work. I live about 60km from Cape Town City center which would take about an hour and a half on a good day with my car, two hours with public transport if everything is running according to schedule (rarely happens) so you chose, pay for the car fuel and insurance or take that public transport that is most likely going to make you late for work three times a week.

My short career   

I worked for a facilities management company doing Environmental Health and Safety. I get asked often how I found myself doing EHS so here we go. I studied electrical and gave up on that career choice due to the physical challenges working with my hands and being on my feet all day just was not working out for me. After a few contract jobs in after my studies, June 2014, I got a permanent job as a Facilities Administrator now adapting my from physical to mental (desk-bound) was quiet interesting in fact in my interview I told my manager at that time “I think I’m a bit scared of an admin job” never the less Mr. positive had to make a change and move forward. A few months later the position for an Environmental Health and Safety administrator was created and my boss approached me with this offer I took the job my next challenge began and I thought I knew nothing about EHS but my electrical background real benefited me as I had the practical knowledge of how unsafe technical employees work and how to mitigate unsafe acts. I enjoyed my experience and learning how important the administration part of a business is. I did some training and courses to close the gaps in understanding EHS. Eventually ending my career as an EHS Coordinator for Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KZN and Bloemfontein for my company and client.

Why I left that cool job   

To be honest, this is a whole blog on its own, so subscribe and stay tuned, but leading up to leaving my job, the work environment became a very negative area in my life.

Negativity leads to sickness

I started feeling sick more often I remember back in November, December 2018 I couldn’t keep any food down I felt weak and moody but as soon as I went on December holidays I no longer felt sick, weak and moody however returning to work January 2019 that sick feeling came back I knew if I didn’t live my positive lifestyle that would be the gateway to a sad and sick lifestyle, I started looking after myself and making myself happy introducing humor to my situation as Actor Will Smith said you are responsible for your happiness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith

Focus 

I started focusing on my sideline business, putting in a little more time and effort looking for more opportunities. Doing things I wanted to do. I started an adventure, travel and car page on Facebook and Instagram called @sundaydrive.za I drove more because that’s my happy place, open roads the sound of my car exhaust and the feeling of being in control of a powerful machine.   https://www.facebook.com/sundaydrive.za/

My new start

I started a company, focusing on Servicing and procurement of laboratory equipment and government procurement, i will defiantly have a blog on working for myself and more details of what in doing and how i got there. Once again subscribe below.

Career Success

In the end in my opinion career success is not what you have how much money you make or having all the nice to haves, It’s just being truly happy with what you are doing, whether you are CEO or the cleaner and believe me happiness attracts all kind of good things.