Should I go back to work?
As you can imagine, the decision to leave corporate America to develop and launch The Pet Set was not an easy one. I’ll leave the unsavoury details of actually starting up a business for another post; but suffice to say, it’s about as intense as any endeavor you can imagine.
Now that The Pet Set is up and running and doing pretty well, there is an evil little voice in the back of my head who says (imagine a little devil sitting on your shoulder)
- “look at that view–go, you know you want to get back in with go-getters, you know you weren’t made to sit at home in your pjs, you’re so smart, you were meant to run a giant corporation in Manhattan, you’ll be on the cover of Fortune Magazine someday, people who call it a ‘rat race’ are just wimps”—and so on.
Here in lies the rub. I haven’t stepped foot in an office in 3 years. My resume is horribly out of date. And here’s the big one: I’m too old. I would be trying to compete with the young and the beautiful. My boss would probably be much younger than me…I’d have to re-enter at a lower position than when I left.
Not to mention, I’d have to try to manage a position and The Pet Set, which would make a normal 12-hour Manhattan work day…more like 18-20 hours.
Is it worth it?
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