TravelCD

Usually I post at 11:30pm GMT but due to my new work I likely will be getting home at midnight. I won’t be active on here today because of the job as well.

So I’m posting early. I would have tried to schedule it, if my actual schedule worked since it doesn’t and has never posted when I wanted it too unless I prompt it, but what is the point of it if you still need to prompt it? 

So yes, anyway, time to get to the question, what do I wish I learned earlier on in life? I think this is quite simple for me to answer. 

I wish I had learned to trust myself more and trust my own gut instincts more. 

I didn’t want to go to university at first, I wanted to take a gap year or even look into apprenticeships.  

However my teachers, my parents, what I had read online, all pointed towards University, this is how you get a good career, a good life, you do a degree. 

My instincts were telling me I wasn’t ready, that perhaps university wasn’t for me and that I didn’t want to commit to something but I decided to follow what everyone was telling me. It was a mistake. 

I ended up on a degree I didn’t want but I tried to convince myself for many years afterwards that it was what I wanted, despite failing interview after interview and not feeling like my heart was in it. 

Basically I have only just starting to find what I want to do with my life, even if it’ll take years to do. 

Not listening to my gut instinct basically make me feel like I waisted about seven or eight years of my life, looking for something I didn’t really want.  

I only recently decided what I am going to do with my life, I want to travel as much as possible and make money online by blogging and using my social media platforms. I know this will take years do make anything from it, so I am looking at jobs in airlines and airports because you get travel benefits by working for them. 

So I can write more blogs about my recent travels instead of relying on my past. 

Right now I am about to step into a catering agency because I listened to myself. While I know I don’t want a career however I am looking for other ways to make money and not just from my current job, for my travels. I also always wanted a job in London and travel around London more and this job will give me this opportunity.  

My parents didn’t want me to take it as they didn’t see why I would take something that wasn’t to further my career but I decided to listen to my own instincts, after all if it goes horribly and I drop food over some customers or something else goes horribly wrong then I can just quit or they’ll fire me, either way 😅 but I thought I might as well try it 😊

😊 I still have my retail job, so it doesn’t matter if this catering thing works out or not. 

So the advice to myself and if you are reading this? Listen to yourself more, after all, no one knows you better than yourself.