I am getting really bad at remembering to post at the end of each month. Perhaps because general life stress is keeping me preoccupied or perhaps because not all that much is worth writing about.

I think October passed me by so quickly because there were added stressors, elections (here in BC, though the one in the US was equally as stressful and ended in utter disappointment frankly) and I was offered a job that would change my career for the first time in almost two decades.

I tried to make something work with my current employer and the new offer, but in the end, we couldn’t reach an accord, so I’ll be moving on to this new challenge very soon.

I am both excited and worried about this. I hope I’m up to the challenge, and believe my experience from the last two decades in public practice accounting has given me the skills I need for the new job, but I still worry that perhaps I’m making the wrong choice. Maybe I’ll dislike the job or overestimate my ability and won’t be good at it. No one likes failure, but to do so at this point in my life would feel extra stressful.

Either way, I am trying to look at this as a new start to carry into the new year. Wish me luck!