Several years ago I was going through a layoff at a fortune 500 company. I had been working for them for 20 years and had a significant severance package. I had been in IT for most of my career with that company. I was really struggling with finding a new job because the work environment had become so toxic I had no interest in going through that again.
One of my friends called me one day and took me out for coffee. He knew I was struggling and had worked with me on training my dogs and knew I really enjoyed it. He asked why I wasn’t looking at becoming a dog trainer full time. That started the process of me starting my own business. It’s been the best and the toughest part of my life and there hasn’t been a time that I wanted to go back to a life in corporate. My life is so different now, so much more full and so many goals that I didn’t even know I wanted to do before I changed my life.
My Slightly Twisted Life 