It's the new year and I will soon be unemployed. Not sure what to make of the "unemployed" status.

I have been working since I was 18 and most of the working has been fulltime (40+ hours). I have cleaned houses, worked in retail, waited on tables, been a bank teller, drove a hilo, worked as an administrative assistant, ran a mill machine in a production shop, administered a suggestion program, hired lots of people, fired a few, developed and built processes to enforce policies, built and delivered training, co-led the conversion of paper process to technology - Performance Planning & Review, Compensation, Development Planning, Talent Tracking, to name a few, expanded organizational efforts in Talent Management, mentored young women and led fairly large teams. As I look back at the work, it doesn't seem significant....just work.

I want meaningful work....work that matters to me (boy do I sound like a GenXer, which I am not)...work that provides maximum learning, stretch, significance as I define it, reflection, and big picture...and I am scared that I have traded this dream for income and security all of these years; that my window has closed and I am left with the ordinary.

This blog is intended log my journey - both body + soul - on this "unemployment" and reinvention pathway. I am not sure what is in store for me for 2009 but I want to risk it....all of it.