The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. – Flora Whittemore
This is a slightly different spin to the more commonly heard phrase, “When one door shuts, another opens.” One of my sons said the latter phrase to me last year after he was unexpectedly fired from his job. Now he’s working at a company in Dallas that appears to be an ideal environment for him, both job-wise and people.
He had been on a temporary gig there for several months, and was about to return to Minnesota as nothing else was materializing. But his sense was that there were more opportunities to his liking in Dallas, if he could just figure out a way to hang on and keep plugging away. So he gambled by closing the door to Minnesota for the time being, and this decision has turned out to be a good one thus far.
I remember turning down job offers on the east and west coasts 11 years ago because I loved living in Northfield. All the things in my life that were important to me were in place, except for a job that paid decent money. We went into considerable debt before climbing back out over the next 5 years, but I’m still very grateful that I closed the door on those job offers.