Today marks both my two year anniversary and my last day of employment at what has been the best job I’ve ever had as a senior software developer at Enzoic (I actually wasn’t aware that today was my two year anniversary until I started writing this post). Mike Wilson, the founder, is an absolute beast…
Warning – this post contains strong language. Most people will agree with me that there’s a time for talking and diplomacy and there’s a time for strength; a time for talking calmly and a time for a display of physical and emotional force. What’s harder to determine in any given situation is where exactly that…
We’re moving. Shocking, right? Why would we move from this gorgeous house (that’s plenty big enough for us btw) just three years after moving in? That’s basically what Ashley asked me when I first floated the idea to her as well… It all started with a candid conversation I had with a close friend a…
In late 2015, my husband Josiah and I decided to make some drastic changes in our life in order to take decisive action that would move us toward our long-term goals of financial stability and time freedom. I decided to quit my job as a middle school English teacher, a career I had fallen into…
Originally published at RVinspiration.com. In 2016, my husband Josiah and I sold our house and bought a fifth wheel RV which we called home for over three and in three different states (you can read that story here). Though we were mostly stationary while we lived in it, we planned to eventually go on the…
Originally published at RVinspiration.com One of the most challenging aspects of moving from a house to an RV was helping our cat, Professor Theodore William Rochester I, who goes by “Kitty”, get used to spending most of his time in a comparatively small space after he had formerly been an indoor/outdoor kitty who had spent…
Part Two of a two-part series. Read Part One here. Originally published at RVinspiration.com. In my article Why I Quit My Job and Moved Into an RV, I wrote about leaving my job as a middle school English teacher in search of a career that would give me more freedom and flexibility, and I told how…
Part One of a Two-Part Series. Read Part Two here. Originally published at RVinspiration.com. Everyone who lives in an RV has a story. Here’s ours. In 2015, I was a middle school English teacher. I had been teaching for five years, and even though the job had been a huge personal challenge for me (especially…