Last year in 21st December, the planets Jupiter and Saturn appeared to come together in the night sky, forming what is called a “Great Conjunction”. This actually meant a lot to us, this marks an official shift from earth period into 200 years of air period.
In air period our value has completely changed, creativity and imagination, following your curiosity is more valuable than results, tradition and guts. In this period people doesn’t stick to one position but have several titles, relationship become as important as assets…
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a spiritual person, but as “a little” spiritual person this change made so much sense to me – even before great conjunction especially after covid happened, people started to focus more on their inner voice and curiosity. Home office is now standard for many employees, and we all know what we can do has more meaning for our lives, not which company we work for. And I am so grateful to live in this period, it’s such a great time to get out of our comfort zone and explore!
I am 28 year-old woman, married last year. I am flower artist and full-time employee at tech-giant company at the same time. It might sound too much for some of you, but luckily I can continue to live like this thanks to the kind understandings of my colleagues and family.
I joined my employer company 6 years ago, and after 2-3 years somehow I felt selling software wasn’t my job to continue for a long time, and I thought of trying flower arranging as my lifework, because flowers were always around me since I was little. In 2018 I told my boss about my little seed of dream to become flower artist and I might want to leave the company sometime soon.
I assumed he was going to say something bad, but I was really surprised when he suggested I should stay there to earn more investment for the flower business. Since then my boss and company have been supporting me to achieve my career both in tech and flower industry in many ways, and in 2019 they arrowed me to take sabbatical leave for 2months and went to flower school in New York. (I will write about my experience there next time!) and it’s 4years later now, I look back the time when I considered to quit in 2018, I really feel I made a right choice to stay in my company – since I have many exciting flower plans in my head which require huge investment… with more investment we can spend more wisely and try exciting business. And what’s more, now I even feel more responsible for my company and started to consider my career path to grow as a business person to contribute in turn. It is funny to think like this, I started flower to leave tech industry, but in the end flower helped me to find my own unique career path in this industry!
I chose to be wife, employee, and flower artists at the same time, it is sometime challenging, but I found that it is important to try everything that my heart takes in order to create my own path in life. And I notice that especially in this air period, it’s easier for the people with purpose to access the resources that help them to achieve their dream. I am so proud that I chose this way with flowers and IT, and excited to continue my journey to build great network with amazing people. If any of you here plan to quit your current job and start something new, I would really like to recommend you to stop once and consider whether there’s really no other way to try both – I see it gets more realistic and there are more chances to live like this in this air period.
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