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I hate letting people down even those I’ve never met
Quitting my freelance job was hard!
Putting yourself first shouldn’t make you feel guilty but it does. At least it does for me.
I recently got an editing job and it was quite a difficult process just to get accepted to the training stage.
However, not long after I got another job with the charity I volunteer for. I’ve just had my first couple of weeks and I am over-the-moon happy with this opportunity. It feels like a step in the right career direction (finally) and I am working with an amazing team whilst doing interesting and rewarding work (who knew jobs like this existed).
The problem I found is I couldn’t do both roles, or maybe I just didn’t want to.
I originally decided to go through the training stage for my freelance role whilst starting my new job. During my first week, I did 8 hour days having numerous video meetings plus 2 or 3 hours extra of editing work. The editing job came with a 35-page style guide. Let’s just say I was tired!
I kept telling myself just to make it through the training stage and see what happens, but what then? I’d be working full-time and then fitting in extra hours in the evenings and weekends to work on editing.
