So time really does fly when you are having fun. The last two weeks have been some of the bussiest for a long time, and yet I havent been to a single teams meeting, steerco meeting or status with my boss. Oh wait a minute… I’m the boss, so I guess I had plenty of check’ins afterall.

I like my new boss a lot, admitted, she is a bit confused and she does spend a lot of time working out, doing yoga and sits on her phone a lot, but I guess she is entitled to, since she is paying her own non existing salary 😂

Jokes aside, 12 hour workdays is no joke, but I am loving it! Yesterday I was at the workshop with Thora Finnsdottir and we just got soo much work done. Created new glazes, cleared the kiln for beautiful new pieces that are going into either commision or things that go to the fall markets

A good amount of time was spend on the phone with TDC, the phone and internet provider and being sent back and forth because of an invoice three times bigger than normal. Ahh how we love spending time on things like that. But all in all a brilliant day!!

We started the day with a workout at 08:30 and I was home at 21:00. Tired, dusty and dirty 😂

The next couple of day I will spend in my own workshop making new molds and prepping for the fall fair in Hillerød. Lots to do and not enough hours in the day.

I hope that whatever you and for whatever time, that you enjoy it. It’s rejuvenating and healthy!

Love from me to you 🫶🏻

So, I have been working hard on my webshop, as I refuse to pay someone external to create it for me and pay xx thousands of dollars to do so and then pay a monthly fee for the rest of my life for support and tech help which is also very expensive.

Starting as an entrepreneur requires a financial starter pack that is beyond most peoples reach!

When I decided to become an entrepreneur I also said yes to being a financial manager, sales manager, content manager, and IT manager, and by far IT manager is the hardest part of all.

I feel so blessed that at least I have a background in IT, but oh boy, GDPR, gateways, payment settings, shipment handling, insurance and return policies, etc., are no joke to undertake on your own.

Over the last couple of weeks, I have spent hours and hours implementing and testing different payment solutions, and there is one KEY thing that needs to work to have success, and that is above anything else. I find it a little funny that without this little piece of technology you can forget about having a successful webshop in Denmark - online mobile payment options.

In Denmark, we have a very easy-to-use mobile payment option that allows customers to process an order without ever reaching for their credit card and entering information. You can pay with a single swipe, and up to 80% of all purchases are made from a phone. If it takes more than 10 sec. to pay or it is in any way annoying, you lose a potential sale.

So after being on the phone multiple times with two different suppliers of gateway payment options, I finally tested a purchase in the new webshop, using only a swipe on my phone - oh the joy when I heard the characteristic pling of the payment succeeded instead of the error 400 no payment method found {HTTPS error} string that has been bugging me for weeks now.

I decided a few months back that August first 2022 would be the day that my new and highly improved webshop should go live, and today at 10:00 I finally made it!

I could not be prouder of myself - as the title says - I can walk on water today - nothing can bring me down.

A few weeks ago I quit my job and was all excited to be starting a new adventure and get some quality me-time (much needed). On Sep. 1st 2022 I no longer have a job as a Team Lead for a Tech team of 9 very smart, intelligent and lovely group of people. The goodbye to them will be the hardest part of this.

Normally I wake up in the morning and head to work downtown Copenhagen and I have a busy day with lots of meetings, buzzing energy and lots of tech - high performance, high energy. I work usually from 08-16 on weekdays and have weekends off and 6 weeks of paid vacation over the course of a year and have a very decent salary, nice pension savings and a kick ass health insurance . Whats not to like right?

Nothing - absolutely nothing, except.... that one little voice in my head that says that there has to be something else - something more. And it has nothing to do with money, Career opportunities, titles or anything like that.

I do not regret quitting my job one bit, what I regret is that I was so busy with my job, my team and working that it took most of my energy and I made a gigantic mistake by not listening to my body and my inner self - So here I am, two weeks after horrible news about my dad passing away suddenly and me not being there to say goodbye, me not calling him to hear about his day, me not visiting him more often because I live 4 hours away and mostly I regret me looking at my phone, his number on my display as he is calling me to hear about my day, and me not picking up because I am too exhausted to talk to him.

I do not want to be that person, I will not be that person, so the search for what kind of person I will be has already started, and over the next weeks and months I hope I will find that person I want to be.

So what now? Well, I will handover my tasks in my current job to my best abilities and have a well deserved honeymoon with my husband (covid restrictions prevented this) and then take a deep breath, go do some yoga classes, listen to podcasts and books and then put on the entrepreneur hat and see where that takes me.

But first:

I will stick to my mantra - If anyone can do this, it has to be me. My former boss did not call me a pitbull for no reason - small in stature but stubborn and fierce and I get shit done. I am surrounded by great people that support me and cheer for me and I have a financial situation that allows me to dream and test out this idea.

Lots of love and thoughts

Sysser

Its been two turbulent days since I quit my very well paid full time teamlead IT job. Yesterday I had to tell my team the news and it was one of the hardest things to do. why did I do that? Because I had to. Simple as that. I just had to slow down, feel my own thoughts and body and just step out of the game.

As many others, during covid lockdown, I had the chance to take a closer look at my life, my routines and habits, and I also realised that I really missed being creative. I have been sewing and crafting most of my life and loving it, but somewhere in the middle of my career I lost the energy to do something creative, which actually gave me energy to keep up with the pace. Ironic right?

In 2021 I decided to take a ceramics weekend course that ended up changing my life. I met Thora Finnsdottir and we hit it off right away. She invited me into her world of creativeness and world, without teams meetings, computers and everything else I was so used to. I found love of creativity instantly and shortly after I asked my boss to have a weekly day off to pursue this ceramic adventure. He agreed and its now been more than 6 months of having perfect thursdays off and learning soooo much from Thora.

So life was good right? Not really because in IT the pace is crazy and instead of being busy 5 days a week, I was now insanely busy 4 days a week, trying to keep up with a job that required more of me than I had to give

On the 4th of july I went to my boss and said it out loud “I quit” – and I felt 10 kg lighter instantly. I must admit that it felt like standing on a cliff, stepping off with no safety net except the belief that there has to be a way to combine my creativity and making a living without feeling left without energy to be anything to anyone.

In a year from now, I want to be the person who call my friends, see them and ask how they are doing, instead of the other way around. I want to be the sister who has time for my brothers and their families. I want to be the wife that cooks dinner for my husband and has the energy to ask about his day. I want to be the daughter that spends more time with her parents while they are still here. Thats the person I want to be…

So here I sit on the train, commuting to work like normally for 6 years, but now it is different because in about two months my mornings will not be commuting. It will be yoga, podcasts, audio books and creating, getting energy to be that person.

So what is the plan? Well, take some time off to find myself and then make a new plan.

Its been two turbulent days since I quit my very well paid full time teamlead IT job. Yesterday I had to tell my team the news and it was one of the hardest things to do. why did I do that? Because I had to. Simple as that. I just had to slow down, feel my own thoughts and body and just step out of the game.

As many others, during covid lockdown, I had the chance to take a closer look at my life, my routines and habits, and I also realised that I really missed being creative. I have been sewing and crafting most of my life and loving it, but somewhere in the middle of my career I lost the energy to do something creative, which actually gave me energy to keep up with the pace. Ironic right?

In 2021 I decided to take a ceramics weekend course that ended up changing my life. I met Thora Finnsdottir and we hit it off right away. She invited me into her world of creativeness and world, without teams meetings, computers and everything else I was so used to. I found love of creativity instantly and shortly after I asked my boss to have a weekly day off to pursue this ceramic adventure. He agreed and its now been more than 6 months of having perfect thursdays off and learning soooo much from Thora.

So life was good right? Not really because in IT the pace is crazy and instead of being busy 5 days a week, I was now insanely busy 4 days a week, trying to keep up with a job that required more of me than I had to give

On the 4th of july I went to my boss and said it out loud “I quit” – and I felt 10 kg lighter instantly. I must admit that it felt like standing on a cliff, stepping off with no safety net except the belief that there has to be a way to combine my creativity and making a living without feeling left without energy to be anything to anyone.

In a year from now, I want to be the person who call my friends, see them and ask how they are doing, instead of the other way around. I want to be the sister who has time for my brothers and their families. I want to be the wife that cooks dinner for my husband and has the energy to ask about his day. I want to be the daughter that spends more time with her parents while they are still here. Thats the person I want to be…

So here I sit on the train, commuting to work like normally for 6 years, but now it is different because in about two months my mornings will not be commuting. It will be yoga, podcasts, audio books and creating, getting energy to be that person.

So what is the plan? Well, take some time off to find myself and then make a new plan.

Love and peace out to the world, we need it!