When It Rains it Pours

So it's been a weekend and change since my last post and I have been keeping busy with a wide-range of activities.

I have been using my extra-time to study up on nutrition books and work-out techniques both online and from a book I got at the local library.  Unfortunately, as the books is an Arnold Schwarzenegger guide to Body-Building from I think the 70's some of it's recommendations are out of date.  For example, I know next to nothing about wellness in resistance training, but I'm pretty sure that doing every body part (legs, arms, shoulders, back, chest) every other day is not the way to start small.  Still, good guide and explanations for various exercises, I think I'll keep it for a week or so and learn what I can and then trade up to something past the Reagan era.

So today I got a few calls right in a row (wink wink to the title of post) -- one from a local agency that is high on my list for CT-based options -- and then one from an old NYC contact who had an offer for a networking event tonight in the city.  It does feel like I'm being pulled back there, but it's also a lot more money to get set-up in the city again and I won't do it unless I can do it the right way.  My own place, a job from the start, and a healthy lifestyle from day one.  Last time I spent too much time focused on making connections and building a support group from scratch -- whereas here I already have that in my family and even a few old friends that have come back to the area.  While I'm not at square one in that department back in New York, it's hard to plan out my return in hypothetical's -- and even harder to attend crucial networking events and job opportunities when I'm living back home.  I try to remember: The choices have to be my own -- that's how I will grow from this.

Deep down I feel like things such as location and initial comfort levels shouldn't matter to me when I'm making professional decisions, but it's hard to ignore these factors after such a turbulent experience.  I need to have the will-power to wait for the right opportunity, both professionally and personally, and while I am still pursuing/researching roles in CT as well as NY -- it's hard to play both fields -- even though CT is more like a batter's mound to New York's two baseball stadiums of professional opportunity.

One thing I know for certain -- I've got to make this choice not based on fear -- but by what I believe is the best opportunity for me.  It's not a trifle thing taking on a new career path,  and if an easy way out comes along, I have to have the strength to not take it.  That's the hardest part.

Until next time...