I wore them all through primary school where I was good at sports and did well in classes. Only one other girl had glasses in my class but I don't remember anyone ever making comment on them.
Things seemed to change when I got to secondary school. Glasses = swot and there were plenty of people who felt inclined to point it out to me. Regardless of the misery of my high school years, I still worked hard enough to get into university.
In uni I studied marketing and business law and graduated in due course.
After that I got a placement with an agency then moved onto a company and worked my way up to marketing executive. I've been in marketing ever since.
It can be quite a fun job and I'm quite good at it (if I do say so myself). The thing is... I don't want a high power, stressful job.
I would quite like to work in my own cafe or bookshop. Working away but with enough time to spend on the things in life I enjoy - writing, reading, family, crafts, gardening, baking.
The problem is that I've busted my ass and my mind for my career over the years. Surely if I give up now it will all have been for nothing. I'm also worried that people will think that I've failed somehow if I give up my good job for something they deem as, well, less.
What worries me is that I fear that the "people" I'm worried about might just be myself.
Regardless, I am determined to make the decisions to take back my life and live it the way I want to live it.
You've already started taking your life back. Long may it continue! :o)
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