Kickass Change

Ask yourself right now: where is your opportunity for kickass change? When are you going to stop putting up with the soul-crushing, conventional, hourglass-glued-to-the-table that has become your life, and give voice and purpose to what you know you should be doing?

Andy Rutledge on taking a potentially horrible situation – the loss of one’s job – and treating it as a life-changing opportunity. The fact that he was able to move from a career in retail management to one in graphic design and web development at the age of 37 is amazing enough; the fact that he is, in my eyes, pretty damn good at the latter is even more incredible.

For many reasons, I am very fortunate. One of them is the freedom I have in my job to explore interests in areas like design and development on company time. And, in my estimation, it has paid off for the company. All the time, I find myself using the new skills I’ve developed to do interesting and ultimately valuable things that I never could have done a year ago.

It might not be Andy’s Kickass Change, but it still feels good.