Thanks for your comment, and for mentioning me on your blog, appreciate it!
I agree – we have been so conditioned that “corporate is it” and “I will be lost without that corporate job” that, sadly, we give up on trying to follow our passion into something fulfilling that can also be profitable and even turn into something more luctrative and successful than a corporate career!
That’s the spirit – I’m glad you are following the blessing to success – I’ll be cheering you from the sidelines!

I currently sell group insurance and I see exactly what you are saying each and everyday at the businesses I call upon.

Its very sad that people are so terrified of finally taking control of their own lives and their own financial destinies.

I see this dismal economy as a blessing in disguise where people have a chance to rediscover themselves and begin a life that they can truly be passionate about.

Thanks for the post. I re-posted it on my blog. I hope you don’t mind.

Be Well.

Kati

Thanks for the awesome comment. Wow, I remember the Palm Pilot, and if you can read on that, you can read on anything, lol!

I love your added points – wow, sorry about the rotator cuff, and so glad it got better. I also know what you mean about conversation starter. I had a hillarious “one-up” conversation with a man that had bought the Kindle version of my Nook Simple Touch, and we were each declaring why we felt our eReader was better. That is, until he said, “Well, I got mine for only $130!” and I replied, “I got mine online on Black Friday for $79.” That ended the conversation. ;-o

I resisted the lure of the e-reader for a long time, too. I love books. I love the way they look and feel and smell, I love turning the pages, I love the whole tactile experience. So when we started trying to get rid of stuff a few years ago in preparation for an eventual overseas move, I started slowly.

First I bought myself a used Palm Pilot to see if I could stomach the reading-on-a-gadget experience. After one airplane trip and a stay that would have normally seen me lugging 5 or 6 books with me, I decided I could. Then I bought an Amazon Kindle. And I found it was every bit as good as reading a regular book except for a few things:

1. It was lighter. An arm injury (damaged muscles that connect to the rotator cuff) cleared up. Who knew that holding all those big, fat, wonderful books was causing the problem?
2. I could read more comfortably by enlarging the font if I was tired or in a low-light situation. I could even read at the eye doctor’s after they took away my glasses to check them — I just cranked the font up to humongous and off I went.
3. I could carry a book, or 10 or 20, with me at all times and it/they only weighed a few ounces.
4. It was a conversation starter. I don’t know how many times people would come over and talk to me because they were curious about my Kindle. Met some very nice people that way.

I’m now on my 2nd Kindle, and still loving it. All the best,Susanna