“Don’t Quit Your Day Job” was a frequent phrase I heard while growing up, often as a slam to someone with poor performance. Although I use this phrase myself, I never put much thought into the phrase. Not really thinking about it, I never thought why there’s the added “day” to the phrase instead of only saying “Don’t quit your job”. Thinking about it in more detail I see now why “day” is added since many talent based activities are night performances such as sports, music, art, etc. Simple, but I have just never taken the time to stop and think about this.

So why now have I stopped to think of this phrase? With the recent event of quitting my night job and have began a day job, this phrase has a whole new meaning to me. Within these two months working a day position, my life has drastically changed, some things more difficult, but a huge portion has improved. For starters, after the first two weeks of very difficult adjustment to reprogram my sleep schedule from sleeping a few hours during the days to sleeping during the night, I have not only adjusted to a normal sleep schedule, but I no longer take sleep medicine and rarely have more than one cup of coffee (or caffeine in general) during the waking hours! These two factor alone are enormous milestones in my life, as I cannot remember a time where I haven’t routinely needed to double dose on sleep medicine to help me fall asleep (even before having a night shift) and then needing to drink a unhealthy amount of caffeine to stay awake (also even well in the early stages of school years). It’s such a strange and wonderful feeling to sleep naturally without any sleep aid needed, and to have a decent amount of sleep that I don’t need to force myself awake with 6-8 cups of coffee within the first two hours of being awake as I have in the past, not including the many more cups throughout the night I had.

In addition to sleeping and no-to-low caffeine, I’ve finally began experiencing the enjoyments of having a day job that lead to being able to have a life for once as well. This, too, has been a strange and wonderful experience to begin. Within the last two months, I have spent more time with family than I have in years. It’s an amazing feeling enjoying time with people I’ve missed out on so many events/holidays/etc. The “don’t quit your day job”, I now take as advice to no go back on night if I want to live a life.

Although my eating better and exercising more hasn’t moved into the direction that I intend to pursue, I haven’t gained much weight in the process either, and staying at a comfortable level of health. I am still active, and perform micro-lifts of a set or two, but nothing consistent. As for LivingLife, I have not been remaining focused on balancing, but I have been living life to higher levels than ever before, and I love it!

Time has been focused on enjoying time out with family (that includes friends that I consider family), and catching up on sleep for the decades prior. No doubt I’ll focus more on LivingLife in the coming weeks, however the main focus has been our wedding preparations. With only a week away, we’re feeling excited for the event and time to spend with family. Also looking forward to wrap up the ceremony with as few hiccups possible and lessen the stress we’ve had planning, preparing, and budgeting everything. However stressed we’ve felt about preparing the wedding, I have not felt nervous or questioning this decision and feel at ease with this life choice.

My fiancé has been a long time friend, and I care a great deal about her family, which makes me feel at ease with everything. I can’t predict the future, I can’t prevent bad things in life and tough times, but I’m happy to have found someone who I know will fight along my side as friend, as love, and soon my wife.

Life has been a lot of living for me for the first time, and although there’s a lot I need to catch-up on in life, I feel that this these first couple months of a new life have been my first true step into living life, which will finally allow me time to focus on LivingLife.

Until next time, keep LivingLife, and take care of yourself and those you love!

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