Employed? Unemployed? Nope. Introducing DKR Communications

Instead of slipping on the high heels this week, I allowed my feet to go commando and flipped open the laptop at home. Introducing DKR Communications.

Here’s the deal…

A little more than a month ago, I let my boss at Syniverse Technologies know that I was ready to try something different. To get back to my writing and editing roots. To stop driving 40 miles each way to work. To stop working 50-60ish hours a week on top of the time I spend in the car. Four weeks later, I’m sitting here at my kitchen counter writing a blog entry.

I know, I know. Blog writing won’t pay the electric bill. Just to make it clear, I do have paid work on my agenda. One, I’ve turned my former employer into a client. Apparently I’ve fooled the people there into thinking I have some skills, so I’ll continue to work on special projects for Syniverse as long as they’ll have me. Executive and investor communications have been on the agenda this week. I also scrounged up other work with a New Jersey-based company. I’m converting a white paper to an industry publication article and developing a couple of case studies.

So, no, I am not unemployed. Just self employed. I need to get used to saying that, I suppose.

Am I worried this won’t work out? Of course. Am I missing my friends (and they were friends more than colleagues) at Syniverse? Very much. Already. Has NPR withdrawal started because I can’t listen to my shows on the way to and from work? Yup.

Now for the flip side. This morning I took an hour walk through Eagle Lake Park — an hour I normally would have spent sitting behind the wheel of my car on my way to work. And I swear that the scowl lines between my eyebrows are beginning to fade.

Maybe, just maybe, this will all work out and produce a happy ending.