Adventure Archives - Golden Age Traveling

I have a dream! No, I am not sharing MLK’s speech, but I do have a dream that I want to share with you today. I have been working hard and saving as much as I can for the last few years to be able to quit my 9-5 cubical job and live the freedom lifestyle. My hope and desire have been to be able to work full-time on my blog. It has been a goal to be able to work from home doing what I love for years, but especially since I started this blog. in the middle of 2015. On that note, I started this adventure during a very low time at my job. There was a month or two with many changes, a lot of people leaving (like 8-10 people), and I lost respect for someone that I had truly admired. It was an eye-opening period that left me feeling hopeless, heartbroken, and totally defeated. Everything I did felt pointless. The only thing that kept my going was my team members and the consultants I help to support. They always showed me their appreciation and still do. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I wouldn’t have made it through those few months without you and your support.

Continue reading “Freedom – Quit My 9-5 Cube to Live the Freedom Lifestyle”

This was previously written from my old blog and have migrated some older posts, including this one about my one-year blogiversary.

I am sitting here working on my blogiversary post and still find it hard to believe it’s been a year since I started this crazy experience of blogging. I didn’t know how to get started or even how much it cost, but I jumped in with both feet and here I am a year later. There were a lot of things that I learned along the way that I had wished I had known earlier, but we learn, grow, and move forward. The one thing I didn’t know or take into consideration, was the amount of time it takes to actually work on posts, sharing posts via social media, and responding to email, Tweets, Facebook posts, etc. However, as many have said to me throughout the year, it is a labor of love and I have enjoyed it very much. Continue reading “My One Year Blogiversary! What an Adventure!”