Week 1 - Back to the GRIND!~

So as promised, I started writing today on the train with an application on my BB call cellspin.net. However, just as I hit submit, I went into a tunnel and my well thought out post was lost in cyberspace forever. That sucks.

Week 1 has taken some adjustment from being home after 7 months. Seven months ago, two weeks after LittleYO arrived, I was laid off. At first, I was really angry and upset for the timing and the absence of corporate compassion. I know, I know....what was I thinking and expecting from a corporation. Stupid. However, having a son was an important time in my life and everyone around me knew, I wasn't even given a heads up. This experience has changed me forever....

Now back at work and 8 months later, I take with me a bag full of memories of being so present in LittleYO's first 8 months of life. An experience, as a first time dad, I had no idea was about. I'm extremely thankful for this experience that many DaddyYO's miss out on...no matter the costs of not working for 8 months there is no price or job I would of taken, if I wasn't running out of money.

Work has been an adjustment, however my focus will never stray from what is most important to me, family and happiness. Forever, its always been about my job, coming in early, leaving late and even working from home. I look back and think, when did that become the norm? Why in a million years would I compensate my free time for some company, at the end of the day, REALLY does not care about you. Trust me, your company does not care about you. I don't care if you worked for the same company for 50 years...they-don't-care. A realization that has empowered me to focus my work and everything I do on something bigger than me and life, Family. I had no idea how important family is despite my Dad's mantra "Family (...and your mind) is all you have" I come to learn that this is in fact, the truth and now exists in my world.

Gone are the days of wanting to go out after work. Darting home to spend an hour with LittleYO before he falls asleep and wifeyYO, is the highlight of my day! Nothing else matters and nothing else ever will. Prior to where I am now I was distracted, like many, from the gravitational pull of the corporation. Which we all know, wherever we get pulled, its never in the direction of our own benefit. Yet, people still work overtime and on the weekends...STOP! I would of never of seen the light should it not have been forced on me 8 months ago, when I was let go from my job. I thought it was the end of my world, it was just the beginning.