Living a non traditional life

I never wanted to work a 9-5 desk job, I would have been a miserable person if I ever had to do that, I would rather pluck my eyeballs out.  I have worked 12 hour shifts most of my life and was able to get that down to 2 12 hour shifts a week.

Now I would stick to that until I was hobbling around with a cane, but I hate the Northeast with a passion.  You get maybe 4-5 months of nice weather if you are lucky, and I do not do snow, or cold, or miserable dreary days.

So, dear hubby and I have worked our butts off ( granted we have no kids), so that we can get out of here the end of next year ( fingers, and arms and legs and eyes are all crossed).  We already downsized to a 2 bedroom apartment ( above our friends who converted their upstairs into an apartment).  We have purged most of our belongings to the bare minimum and will do a final purging this winter.

The plan is to buy a small home in Florida and stay in our trailer in the summer in Maryland.  The challenge in Maryland is it is about 400 square feet.  Now that would not be too bad, but the plan is to do my signs full time.  So we have been getting creative in getting a small area of storage for me to put all my supplies.  I think we have that ready to go.

I love our little place in Maryland, and you would be amazed at what you really do not need once you are in a small space.  In fact, we realized that we have never used the stove, ever, in 7 years.  We steam crabs, we grill our meat, and if I bake something small, I use the toaster oven.

So, if all goes well, by the age of 50 I will be doing my passion full time, that is creating home made items and selling online and craft shows.  I already know the hours will be way more than I am working now, but 25 years in the medical field has been long enough, and I am more than ready to work 7 days a week to do what I really love to do.